Evolutionary Social Network Analysis of Web-based Educational Environments
Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction - Year 2012, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
This research provides a different perspective to analyzing the social networks that are formed in online learning environments. The novelty of this study lies in the investigation of the evolution of the online social networks as opposed to most current research which focuses only on the end state of a course when analyzing its computer-mediated communication. These educational social networks continually evolve and change over time, thus a method which can be used to assess their evolving nature is necessary. The contribution of this paper to the HCI community is the recommendation of Evolutionary Social Network Analysis as a method for studying students’ communication interactions with each other during the duration of an online course. In the approach followed, the proposed method was applied to a case study and the results show that it can be a useful tool for researchers and educators in studying evolving social networks.
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Andrew Laghos
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