Students' interactions in online asynchronous discussion forum: A social network analysis

2009 International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, ICETC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 25-29

  Erlin, ^a   Yusof, Norazah ^a   Rahman, Azizah Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Betweenness centrality; Closeness centrality; Degree centrality; Density; Online interaction

Indexed keywords

BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CLOSENESS CENTRALITY; DEGREE CENTRALITY; DENSITY; ONLINE INTERACTION;

E-LEARNING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 70449574195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICETC.2009.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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