On the bursty evolution of blogspace
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
Bridging the Gap: A Genre Analysis of Weblogs
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 4 - Volume 4
Communications of the ACM - The Blogosphere
A social hypertext model for finding community in blogs
Proceedings of the seventeenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Social network analysis for technology-enhanced learning: review and future directions
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
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Blogging has become mainstream, even in Higher Education. How to successfully build and sustain dispersed cross-institutional learning networks, however, still remains a conundrum. Validation trials evaluating learning technology and practice lack possibilities to investigate this at scale with hundreds of individuals over yearlong periods of time. With this contribution, we therefore propose a model for simulating a Higher Education blogosphere in order to circumvent this cost and resources problem. The model is informed by actual, but smaller-scale trials conducted within the EC-funded iCamp project. This computational model is used to investigate the potential impact of a new educational intervention model and new blog network management facilities developed with the aim of facilitating social networking, self-direction, and collaboration among learners. The simulations conducted predict increased density and reciprocity of an open Higher Education blogosphere, when fitted with improved technology and when a subset of individuals is scaffolded along formal courses to form weak ties.