Who students interact with? A social network analysis perspective on the use of twitter in language learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6383 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 432-437

  Ullrich, Carsten ^a   Borau, Kerstin ^a   Stepanyan, Karen ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collaborative learning; microblogging; social network analysis; social networking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; INTERACTION PATTERN; LANGUAGE LEARNING; MICROBLOGGING; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK MEASURES; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT; STUDENT INTERACTIONS;

INNOVATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049369701     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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