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TY  _  JOUR
ID  -  202007088186
TI  -  Content and structural analysis of online forums in order to extract users' social relationships and use them in grouping mechanisms.
JO  -  Journal of Information and Communication Technology
JA  -  ES
LA  -  fa
SN  -  2717-0411
AU  -   
AU  -  Taghiyareh Fataneh
AD  -   
AD  -  Tehran University
Y1  -  2019
PY  -  2019
VL  -  12
IS  -  
SP  -  1
EP  -  7
KW  -  
DO  -  
N2  -  Today, thanks to the growth and development of communication and information technologies, online learning systems have been able to provide group learning facilities and space for interaction and exchange of ideas between learners. This requires the formation of effective learning groups and the provision of learner participation tools in online learning environments, which is rarely seen in existing systems that use virtual learning centers. In this article, the content and structure of the discussion forums have been examined. Content analysis has been done in order to match the content of the discussions with the objectives of the forum and to extract the areas of interest of the participants. While expressing the achievements of the social network analysis of an academic learning environment, the researchers have presented a solution for extracting the social relationships of people through the structural analysis of discussion forums in an online learning environment. Also, they have presented a method to use the extracted relationships in the mechanisms of grouping learners and evaluated its efficiency. Different parts of this research have been conducted in different courses in consecutive semesters and its achievements can be used to improve collaborative learning activities in online and blended learning environments.
UR  - rimag.ir/en/Article/8186
L1  - rimag.ir/en/Article/Download/8186
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