technological innovations for inclusive learning & teaching

BLINC

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BLINC (Building Literacy in N-person Collaborations) is a web-based platform that helps students and educators understand and improve how they collaborate. During group discussions, BLINC surfaces real-time analytics — discussion timelines, keywords, speaking patterns, and emotional tone — grounded in our collaboration literacy framework. Rather than simply monitoring participation, the goal is to help groups reflect on the quality of their collaboration and grow collaboration literacy as a skill. We have deployed BLINC in university and K-12 classrooms and continue to develop and study the platform.

Dashboard

BLINC dashboard interface showing discussion timelines, keywords, and speech direction visualizations

Pod

A BLINC pod: a small 3D-printed data-capture device housing a microphone array

Publications from This Project

Eze, T. D., Zurbuchen, L., Anderson, K. J., & Worsley, M. (2026). A Collaboration Literacy Analytics Framework (CLAF): Investigating Students' Perspectives on Collaboration Quality Indicators and Feedback Utilization. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

DOI

Xie, D., Anderson, K. J., Eze, T., Lin, C., Shin, B., & Worsley, M. (2026). CLARA: An AI-Augmented Analytics Dashboard for Collaboration Literacy. Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2026), pp. 339-353.

DOI

Worsley, M., Anderson, K., Melo, N., & Jang, J. (2021). Designing Analytics for Collaboration Literacy and Student Empowerment. Journal of Learning Analytics, 8(1), 30-48.

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Worsley, M., & Ochoa, X. (2020). Towards Collaboration Literacy Development through Multimodal Learning Analytics.

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