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Student social graphs: visualizing a student's online social network

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Most research applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to online learning has been focused on understanding the social network of the class as an entity. This work, on the other hand, explores student specific analysis (i.e. analyzing each student individually). This student-centered analysis uses a graphical metaphor to provide the instructor an intuitive understanding of the student's interactions within the class. The paper presents a prototype of the visual metaphor and reports on a pilot study of the application of the prototype to students within a web-based course.

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    CSCW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
    November 2004
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    1. asynchronous learning networks (ALN)
    2. computer mediated communication
    3. social network analysis (SNA)
    4. visualization
    5. web-based learning

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