How effective is your facilitation? Group-level analytics of MOOC forums

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 208-217

  Poquet, Oleksandra ^a   Dawson, Shane ^a   Dowell, Nia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

ERGM; Facilitation; Forum; Indicators of social activity; MOOCs

Indexed keywords

GAGES; GRAPH THEORY;

ERGM; FACILITATION; FORUM; MOOCS; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES;

TEACHING;

EID: 85016447772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3027385.3027404     Document Type: Conference Paper

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