Investigating social and semantic user roles in MOOC discussion forums

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 25-29-April-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 198-207

  Hecking, Tobias ^a   Chounta, Irene Angelica ^a   Hoppe, H Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; Measurement; Theory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEASUREMENTS;

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGE NETWORKS; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; METHODOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; THEORY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84976488621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2883851.2883924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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