Evaluating CSCL log files by social network analysis

Visualizations of Online Course Interactions for Social Network Learning Analytics

“…Ref. [24] associates betweenness to learning performance, although its relation is weaker than that of degree and closeness centrality, and [17] find that tutors and instructors show higher betweenness values, a result also found in [20].…”

“…An increasing number of scholars -e.g. [2,[17][18][19][20][21][22]-have already validated the usefulness of social network learning analytics for instructors based on the use of social network metrics.…”

Learning within Digital Media: Investigating the Relationships Between Student Citation Networks, Assignment Structures, and Learning Outcomes

“…Social network analysis has been applied in the learning domain to explore the exchange of knowledge or information [14], the effects of teacher presence on the density of a network [19], the cohesion of small groups (in order to identify active groups and isolated nodes) [23], and participation in collaborative learning activities [20].…”

Developing Models for Distributed Problem-Based Learning: Theoretical and Methodological Reflection

“…The students' task was to give feedback on how the teachers presented in the videocases could improve their lessons. In our own study (Nurmela et al, 1999), we also used videocases of real teaching-learning interaction as a tool for problem presentation. These studies give some preliminary evidence that videocases can help students to pay attention to joint problems, even when the collaboration takes place through a network-based collaboration tool.…”