Time Analysis of Forum Evolution as Support Tool for E-Moderating

Author

Bentivoglio, Carlo Alberto

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Sci. dell´´Educazione e della Formazione, Univ. di Macerata, Macerata, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

Nov. 30 2009-Dec. 2 2009

Firstpage

1131

Lastpage

1135

Abstract

The Web forum is a key tool in new knowledge building among students in learning management systems. Unfortunately, the huge number of messages makes difficult, for tutors and teachers, to correctly evaluate the evolution of the forum and its efficacy in the learning process. In order to support the tutors in this effort, a solution, based on simple statistical indices inspired by the work in the text analysis and social network analysis field, is proposed. The obtained results show good performance with a minimum computational effort.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; knowledge management; social networking (online); statistical analysis; text analysis; Web forum; e-moderating; forum evolution; knowledge building; learning management system; learning process; social network analysis; statistical index; text analysis; time analysis; tutor; Buildings; Collaboration; Conference management; Intelligent structures; Intelligent systems; Knowledge management; Social network services; System analysis and design; Text analysis; Yarn; Text-mining; statistical analysis; tutoring support system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2009. ISDA '09. Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pisa

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4735-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3872-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISDA.2009.66

Filename

5364149