Teachers' interactions in an online graduate course on moodle: A social network analysis perspective

Meridian

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Zheng, Meixun ^a   Spires, Hiller ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Friday Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Knowledge construction; Online interaction patterns; Online learning community; Social constructivism learning theory; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954468697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10979778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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