Beyond marks: New tools to visualise student engagement via social networks

Research in Learning Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Badge, Joanne L ^a   Saunders, Neil F W ^b   Cann, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data visualisation; Social networks; Student engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864057159     PISSN: 21567069     EISSN: 21567077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v20i0/16283     Document Type: Article

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