Knowledge Building Discourse Explorer: A social network analysis application for knowledge building discourse

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 903-921

  Oshima, Jun ^a   Oshima, Ritsuko ^a   Matsuzawa, Yoshiaki ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Knowledge Building Discourse Explorer; New learning metaphor; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866770679     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-012-9265-2     Document Type: Article

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