Social Network Analysis of European Project Consortia to Reveal Impact of Technology-Enhanced Learning Projects

Author

Derntl, Michael ; Klamma, Ralf

Author_Institution

Adv. Community Inf. Syst., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

746

Lastpage

747

Abstract

The European Commission (EC) has spent hundreds of millions of euros on collaborative Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) projects in recent years. Consequently the EC is interested in the impact generated by those projects. Spawning sustained collaboration ties can be interpreted as one aspect of project impact. In this paper we present a novel way of analyzing this latent impact of TEL projects by applying social network analysis on the projects´ collaboration structures. Our analysis includes TEL projects funded under FP6, FP7 and eContentplus, and identifies central projects and strong, sustained organizational collaboration ties.

Keywords

educational technology; groupware; project management; social networking (online); socio-economic effects; European Commission; European Project consortia; FP6; FP7; central project identification; collaborative TEL projects; collaborative technology enhanced learning projects; eContentplus; latent impact; project collaboration structures; social network analysis; sustained organizational collaboration ties; technology-enhanced learning project impact; Collaboration; Communities; Consortia; Educational institutions; Europe; Organizations; Social network services; Collaborative projects; European Commission; Impact analysis; Social network analysis; Technology enhanced learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1642-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2012.41

Filename

6268248