Incentivizing participation in online forums for education

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 525-542

  Ghosh, Arpita ^a   Kleinberg, Jon ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Education forums; Game theory; Incentives; Online education; Peer learning

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; GAME THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

GAME-THEORETIC MODEL; INCENTIVES; ON-LINE EDUCATION; ONLINE FORUMS; PEER LEARNING; POSITIVE PROBABILITY; QUESTION TYPE; STUDENT RESPONSE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84879750583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492002.2482587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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