Analysing social presence in online discussions through network and text analytics

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2019

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Rolim, V.
Ferreira Leite De Mello, R.
Kovanovic, V.
Gasevic, D.

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Chang, M.
Sampson, D.G.
Huang, R.
Gomes, A.S.
Chen, N.S.
Bittencourt, I.I.
Kinshuk,
Dermeval, D.
Bittencourt, I.M.

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Proceedings - IEEE 19th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2019, 2019 / Chang, M., Sampson, D.G., Huang, R., Gomes, A.S., Chen, N.S., Bittencourt, I.I., Kinshuk, , Dermeval, D., Bittencourt, I.M. (ed./s), iss.8820871, pp.163-167

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19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2019 (15 Jul 2019 - 18 Jul 2019 : Maceio, Brazil)

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This paper presents an approach to studying relationships between students' social presence and course topics from transcripts of asynchronous discussions in online learning environments. Specifically, the paper uses topic modeling and epistemic network analysis to investigate how students' social presence is expressed across different course topics. Finally, we show how this method can be adopted to examine how students' social presence changed due to an instructional intervention. The results of this study and its implications are further discussed.

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Copyright 2019 IEEE Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript is available open access

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