Approaches to Multimodal Analysis Of Groups Of Students Learning Online

position paper, we describe two existing online learning environments, and we discuss ways in which technologies for audio and video speech analysis might be applied to assessing the learning of online student groups. We present this challenge in the context of mediating and extracting information from multimodal, multiparty online meetings. Online learning communities can have all the attributes of multiparty online meetings, with particular focus on educational agendas.