Sensemaking of social network analysis for the study of learning
1. Week 4: Sensemaking of
Social Network Analysis for
the Study of Learning
Dragan Gašević
@dgasevic
2. Connection with
educational research and practice
Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Siemens, G. (2015). Let’s not forget: Learning analytics are about learning.
TechTrends (in press), https://bit.ly/techtrends2015
3. Question-driven
Data-driven analytics
Gašević, D., Dawson, S., Siemens, G. (2015). Let’s not forget: Learning analytics are about learning.
TechTrends (in press), https://bit.ly/techtrends2015
6. What data sources for
network extraction to use?
Discussion boards, course enrollments, and
Twitter
7. Which educational constructs to use?
Learning design, sense of community,
creative potential, social presence,
academic performance,
distributed (MOOC) pedagogy
8. What additional data to collect?
Course enrollments, grades, self-reports,
quantitative content analysis codes, course design
9. To do in this week
Hands-on activities and assignments
Integration with knowledge gained in weeks 1-2
10. More than welcome
The use of your data
Discussion of questions of direct interest for you