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Measuring creative potential: Using social network analysis to monitor a learners' creative capacity

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dc.contributor.authorDawson, S.
dc.contributor.authorTan, J.P.L.
dc.contributor.authorMcWilliam, E.
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractDespite the burgeoning rhetoric from political, social and educational commentators regarding creativity and learning and teaching, there is a paucity of scalable and measurable examples of creativity-centric pedagogical practice. This paper makes an argument for the application of social network visualisations to inform and support creativity-enabling pedagogical practice. This paper first describes social networks and how they relate to creative capacities and learning as a social process. It then provides an initial case study of how social network analysis may be meaningfully applied to evaluate students’ learning networks and creative capacities, and elaborates on how such an evaluative resource can allow educators to design and implement creativityenabling pedagogical practice. In so doing, this paper contributes conceptual, methodological and empirical advances that can take learning and teaching for creativity, particularly in higher education, beyond rhetoric towards more observable and measurable mainstream pedagogical practice.
dc.identifier.citationAustralasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011; 27(6):924-942
dc.identifier.doi10.14742/ajet.921
dc.identifier.issn1449-5554
dc.identifier.issn1449-5554
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.8/151765
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherASCILITE - Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education
dc.rightsCopyright 2012 The Authors
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.921
dc.subjectpedagogical
dc.subjectnetworking agility
dc.subjectmethodology
dc.titleMeasuring creative potential: Using social network analysis to monitor a learners' creative capacity
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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