Creative writing and social action: a data analysis based on learning analytics about how social, cultural and linguistic barriers can be overcome through educational innovation and international cooperation

Abstract

Recently, analysing the students' creative writing has become increasingly an interesting subject in the literature to improve the students' performance, awareness and thinking, especially after the emergence of AI tools. The majority of the researchers have focused only on dealing with these new tools to not limit the students' creativity, critical thinking and socialisation. Exceptionally, this paper presents the results of the international educational innovative project: 'EcoApreNdemos 2023: narrating learning for the betterment of the environment' that combines social action and creative writing to promote the students' critical thinking and awareness. It introduces a holistic analysis to understand how creativity learning through social engagement takes place, with the help of data analytics and the aim of being able to improve it. It analyses the students' creative writing before and after social actions to help instructors find the best pedagogical design to enhance their students' writing capabilities. Additionally, it defines an application of students' grouping according to their creative writing features using an intelligent algorithm.