Student social graphs: visualizing a student's online social network

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey S. Saltz;Starr Roxanne Hiltz;Murray Turoff

  • Affiliations:
  • JP Morgan Chase Inc. and New Jersey Institute of Technology;New Jersey Institute of Technology;New Jersey Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Most research applying Social Network Analysis (SNA) to online learning has been focused on understanding the social network of the class as an entity. This work, on the other hand, explores student specific analysis (i.e. analyzing each student individually). This student-centered analysis uses a graphical metaphor to provide the instructor an intuitive understanding of the student's interactions within the class. The paper presents a prototype of the visual metaphor and reports on a pilot study of the application of the prototype to students within a web-based course.