Communities of performance & communities of preference

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1446, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Brown, Rebecca ^a   Lynch, Collin ^a   Wang, Yuan ^b   Eagle, Michael ^a   Albert, Jennifer ^a   Barnes, Tiffany ^a   Baker, Ryan ^b   Bergner, Yoav ^c   McNamara, Danielle ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Teachers College Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community detection; MOOC; Online forum; Social network

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EDUCATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEACHING;

COMMUNITY DETECTION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CURRENT GENERATION; MOOC; ONLINE FORUMS; STATED PREFERENCES; STUDENT PERFORMANCE; TEACHING ASSISTANTS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84944345941     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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