Title
Social learning networks: A brief survey
Abstract
Social Learning Network (SLN) is a type of social network among students, instructors, and modules of learning. It consists of the dynamics of learning behavior over a variety of graphs representing the relationships among the people and processes involved in learning. Recent innovations in online education, including open online courses at various scales, in flipped classroom instruction, and in professional and corporate training have presented interesting questions about SLN. Collecting, analyzing, and leveraging data about SLN lead to potential answers to these questions, with help from a convergence of modeling languages and design methods, such as social network theory, science of learning, and education information technology. This survey article overviews some of these topics, including prediction, recommendation, and personalization, in this emergent research area.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CISS.2014.6814139
Information Sciences and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer aided instruction,graph theory,interactive programming,social networking (online),student experiments,SLN,graph representation,instructors,modules of learning,online education,social learning networks,students
Educational technology,Data science,Learning sciences,Flipped classroom,Active learning,Social network,Computer science,Synchronous learning,Social learning,Personalization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.84
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher G. Brinton111815.23
Mung Chiang27303486.32