会议专题

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

2008 IEEE International Symposium on IT in Medicine and Education(2008信息技术在医学和教育中的应用国际研讨会)(ITME 2008)

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)