Participation in virtual academic communities of practice under the influence of technology acceptance and community factors. A learning analytics application

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue , 2014, Pages 339-344

  Nistor, Nicolae ^a,b,c   Baltes, Beate ^c   Dascǎlu, Mihai ^d,e   Mihǎilǎ, Dan ^d   Smeaton, George ^c   Trǎuşan Matu, Ştefan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c WALDEN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Discourse analysis; Learning analytics; Natural language processing; Social network analysis; Technology acceptance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ANALYTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 84898828427     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.051     Document Type: Article

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