What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media?: A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC
2015
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Joksimović, SrećkoZouaq, Amal
Kovanović, Vitomir
Gašević, D.
Jovanović, Jelena
Hatala, Marek
Конференцијски прилог (Објављена верзија)
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Creating meaning from a wide variety of available information and being able to choose what to learn are highly relevant skills for learning in a connectivist setting. In this work, various approaches have been utilized to gain insights into learning processes occurring within a network of learners and understand the factors that shape learners' interests and the topics to which learners devote a significant attention. This study combines different methods to develop a scalable analytic approach for a comprehensive analysis of learners' discourse in a connectivist massive open online course (cMOOC). By linking techniques for semantic annotation and graph analysis with a qualitative analysis of learner-generated discourse, we examined how social media platforms (blogs, Twitter, and Facebook) and course recommendations influence content creation and topics discussed within a cMOOC. Our findings indicate that learners tend to focus on several prominent topics that emerge very quickly in t...he course. They maintain that focus, with some exceptions, throughout the course, regardless of readings suggested by the instructor. Moreover, the topics discussed across different social media differ, which can likely be attributed to the affordances of different media. Finally, our results indicate a relatively low level of cohesion in the topics discussed which might be an indicator of a diversity of the conceptual coverage discussed by the course participants.
Кључне речи:
SNA / Content analysis / Connectivism / CMOOCИзвор:
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2015, 16-20-March-2015, 156-165Издавач:
- Association for Computing Machinery
Институција/група
Fakultet organizacionih naukaTY - CONF AU - Joksimović, Srećko AU - Zouaq, Amal AU - Kovanović, Vitomir AU - Gašević, D. AU - Jovanović, Jelena AU - Hatala, Marek PY - 2015 UR - https://rfos.fon.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1456 AB - Creating meaning from a wide variety of available information and being able to choose what to learn are highly relevant skills for learning in a connectivist setting. In this work, various approaches have been utilized to gain insights into learning processes occurring within a network of learners and understand the factors that shape learners' interests and the topics to which learners devote a significant attention. This study combines different methods to develop a scalable analytic approach for a comprehensive analysis of learners' discourse in a connectivist massive open online course (cMOOC). By linking techniques for semantic annotation and graph analysis with a qualitative analysis of learner-generated discourse, we examined how social media platforms (blogs, Twitter, and Facebook) and course recommendations influence content creation and topics discussed within a cMOOC. Our findings indicate that learners tend to focus on several prominent topics that emerge very quickly in the course. They maintain that focus, with some exceptions, throughout the course, regardless of readings suggested by the instructor. Moreover, the topics discussed across different social media differ, which can likely be attributed to the affordances of different media. Finally, our results indicate a relatively low level of cohesion in the topics discussed which might be an indicator of a diversity of the conceptual coverage discussed by the course participants. PB - Association for Computing Machinery C3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series T1 - What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media?: A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC EP - 165 SP - 156 VL - 16-20-March-2015 DO - 10.1145/2723576.2723609 UR - conv_3435 ER -
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Joksimović, S., Zouaq, A., Kovanović, V., Gašević, D., Jovanović, J.,& Hatala, M.. (2015). What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media?: A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC. in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Association for Computing Machinery., 16-20-March-2015, 156-165. https://doi.org/10.1145/2723576.2723609 conv_3435
Joksimović S, Zouaq A, Kovanović V, Gašević D, Jovanović J, Hatala M. What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media?: A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC. in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. 2015;16-20-March-2015:156-165. doi:10.1145/2723576.2723609 conv_3435 .
Joksimović, Srećko, Zouaq, Amal, Kovanović, Vitomir, Gašević, D., Jovanović, Jelena, Hatala, Marek, "What do cMOOC participants talk about in Social Media?: A Topic Analysis of Discourse in a cMOOC" in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 16-20-March-2015 (2015):156-165, https://doi.org/10.1145/2723576.2723609 ., conv_3435 .