An Exploration of Social Network Analysis on Cohesion in Online Collaborative Learning
Cohesion is one of key factors influencing the performance of collaborative learning. But it is hart to reckon and assess it in online collaborative learning environments. Social network analysis (SNA) is a new method and technique analyzing the properties of the interaction relations between participants. In this paper, we introduced the related key concepts in SNA,and presented an analysis model which can analyze the cohesion of groups effectively and precisely, and then showed a case study which was from a quasi-experiment in our instruction practice, lastly, drew several useful principles on reckoning cohesion in online collaborative learning by SNA.
Yonggu Wang Xiaojuan Li
College of Education Science and Technology,Zhejiang University of Technology,China College of Humanity,Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics,China
国际会议
厦门
英文
224-229
2008-12-12(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)