An investigation into the formation of learning groups on social media and their growth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21632847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Masami Yoshida (0000-0002-1099-8367, Chiba University, corresponding author), Chun Xiong (0000-0001-5156-6854, Central China Normal University), Yunyun Liu (0000-0003-0217-0591, Central China Normal University), Hongyan Liu (0000-0002-6721-4439, Central China Normal University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 299-312 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interactive Learning Environments (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-4820 • E-ISSN: 1744-5191 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10494820.2020.1780268 |
| OpenAlex | W3036874476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 28 |
This study aims to identify the formulation differences of groups in two online activities in a university course with different strategies by using social network analysis. Specifically, the connections within the members and identification of brokers were analyzed. Whilst the group enhancing a “community of practice” in WeChat by assigned posting showed larger evolution on the social graph, it lacked active involvement of students’ friends and structural holes and their diameter were shown to increase towards the end. Another group enhancing a “personal knowledge network” in Twitter by their free posting showed no ties with any social actors, implying a cold-start and problems of sparsity in the social communication. From the discussion about brokers, we concluded similar future needs to develop their social skills to promote itinerant and liaison brokers to evolve learning groups socially
Group learning · Interpersonal ties · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Social group · Social learning · Social media · Social network analysis · Sociology · World Wide Web · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Online Learning and Analytics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Communities of Practice
Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning
Finding community structure in very large networks
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
Graph drawing by force‐directed placement
Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness
Structures of Mediation
Making cooperative learning work
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |