Translating network position into performance: Importance of centrality in different network configurations

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 25-29-April-2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 314-323

  Joksimovic, Srećko ^a   Manataki, Areti ^a   Gaševic, Dragan ^a   Dawson, Shane ^b   Kovanovic, Vitomir ^a   De Kereki, Inés Friss ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD ORT URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Ergm; Mooc; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS; ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ERGM; LEARNING ANALYTICS; MOOC; NETWORK CENTRALITIES; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS;

EID: 84976499927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2883851.2883928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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