NDLI: Simple and Computational Heuristics for Forum Management in the NSTA Learning Center: A Role for Learning Analytics in Online Communities of Practice Supporting Teacher Learning

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Pérez-López, K. Cambridge, D. Byers, A.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: American Inst. for Res., USA (Pérez-López, K.; Cambridge, D.)
Abstract	Prior research has demonstrated that the quality of moderation and management in online communities of practice is key to their successful support of learning. However, as communities grow in size and complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult for unaided experts to fully understand and take action in response to the activity of participants within them. Learning analytics has the potential to provide the support that community of practice leaders need to improve their performance. The National Science Teachers Association and U.S. Department of Education's Connected Educators project are exploring three approaches for managing forums to make them accessible and to synthesize the knowledge they generate: archiving, summarizing, and reorganizing. This paper describes manual heuristics for the first two of these, as well as the use of social network analysis to help develop algorithms to automate the third, community forum reorganization.
Starting Page	3088
Ending Page	3097
File Size	724387
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467359337
ISSN	15301605
e-ISBN	9780769548920
DOI	10.1109/HICSS.2013.481
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-01-07
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Communities Education Social network services Protocols Diamonds Clustering algorithms Complexity theory clustering learning analytics science teachers online communities of practice forum management social network analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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