The education in informal learning contexts is spreading over the world. In these contexts, from a pedagogical point of view, the most used approaches is the social learning and, in particular the communities of practice (CoP). From a technological point of view, the social network is the framework most used to allow users to interact and to share resources. Several aspects have been identified as key factors for the success of the community, the engagement is one of the most important. Thus, in order to guarantee a successful learning process in a CoP it is necessary to detect and monitor user’s engagement in a continuous and unobtrusive way. The research proposes a model to detect and measure the engagement in online communities by means Social Learning Analytics from log files. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.
Engagement in social learning: Detecting engagement in online communities of practice
PESARE, ENRICA;ROSELLI, Teresa;ROSSANO, VERONICA
2017-01-01
Abstract
The education in informal learning contexts is spreading over the world. In these contexts, from a pedagogical point of view, the most used approaches is the social learning and, in particular the communities of practice (CoP). From a technological point of view, the social network is the framework most used to allow users to interact and to share resources. Several aspects have been identified as key factors for the success of the community, the engagement is one of the most important. Thus, in order to guarantee a successful learning process in a CoP it is necessary to detect and monitor user’s engagement in a continuous and unobtrusive way. The research proposes a model to detect and measure the engagement in online communities by means Social Learning Analytics from log files. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
