Honing in on social learning networks in MOOC forums: Examining critical network definition decisions

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 383-392

  Wise, Alyssa Friend ^a   Cui, Yi ^b   Jin, Wan Qi ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discussion forum; Massive open online courses; Network partitioning; Social network analysis; Tie extraction

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICINE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); STARS;

CRITICAL NETWORKS; DISCUSSION FORUM; INTERACTION NETWORKS; MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE; NATURAL LANGUAGE MODEL; NETWORK PARTITIONING; NETWORK PROPERTIES; SOCIAL NETWORK STRUCTURES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 85016512090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3027385.3027446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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