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Using Social Network Analysis To Explore Digital Student Interactions And Business Competency Learning In A Web-Based Educational Platform:, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Kim Gower
Using Social Network Analysis To Explore Digital Student Interactions And Business Competency Learning In A Web-Based Educational Platform:, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Kim Gower
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Web 2.0 tools occupy a large part of our lives, and their use in the classroom offers instructors a unique opportunity to gather substantial information about individual and interactive student behaviors. The authors’ challenge is understanding the implications of this rich data source for assessing course efficacy and student learning, and applying these insights to further enhance the development of global business competencies. This paper reviews 311 student interactions as reflected in comments exchanged in a digital social learning community and, using social network analysis, discusses the potential to use these interactions to assess student critical thinking, communication, and collaborative …
Deconstructing Wikipedia: Collaborative Content Creation In An Open Process Platform, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps
Deconstructing Wikipedia: Collaborative Content Creation In An Open Process Platform, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps
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Collaboration in Wikipedia articles has widely been touted as a great leap forward and an example of how technology can be leveraged to improve collaborative processes. If we focus on the creation of individual articles, what does that creation process look like? Information was collected from the Revision History Statistics page of thirty Wikipedia featured articles to examine variables such as number of edits, number of editors and total edits by the largest contributors to a given article. This small pilot study suggests that the article creation process may more closely mirror the traditional writer/editor process than it does the …
Polyvore Collaboration: Innovation In Informal Online Affiliation Networks, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Brent Wilson
Polyvore Collaboration: Innovation In Informal Online Affiliation Networks, Andrew P. Feldstein Dps, Brent Wilson
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Online communities engaged in collaborative exchange exhibit characteristics of spontaneous communitas as defined by Victor Turner (1982). Interactions taking place in these communities also correspond to Harrison White's (2008) concept of network formation as a tension between identity and control. A social network analysis of activities in the Polyvore community maps the behavior of members as they oscillate between liminoid transactions and structured integration; between creativity and conformity. An affiliation network is a two-mode network consisting of a set of actors and a set of events. This paper studies an affiliation network as it develops within the Polyvore community.