Visualizing social learning ties by type and topic: Rationale and concept demonstrator

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 33-37

  Schreurs, Bieke ^a   Teplovs, Chris ^b   Ferguson, Rebecca ^c   De Laat, Maarten ^a   Buckingham Shum, Simon ^c  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

networked learning; social learning analytics; social network analysis; visualization

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; CONCEPT DEMONSTRATORS; NETWORKED LEARNING; REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONER; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STUDENTS LEARNING; TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84876492579     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2460296.2460305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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