Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.

Asynchronous forums, e-mail lists, and chat rooms create virtuaql environments where it may not be easy to detect communication problemas among the participants. Anyone who wants to teach through an online environment finds that current learning management systems do not provide enough information a...

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Main Author: Willging, Pedro A.
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2008-06-01
Series:REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
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Online Access:http://revista-redes.rediris.es/pdf-vol14/vol14_6.pdf
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description Asynchronous forums, e-mail lists, and chat rooms create virtuaql environments where it may not be easy to detect communication problemas among the participants. Anyone who wants to teach through an online environment finds that current learning management systems do not provide enough information about the communication structure of the group, level of participation, and other structural characteristics of the interactions that happen in this environment. In this work, the use of social network analisis methods (SNA) and visualizations for online environments had been explored. The procedures to create the visual objects that represent intangible online interactions are shown and the usefulness of these images as devices for data pattern recognition is analized.The validity of SNA techniques and visualizations as tools for instructors of online courses and researchers to evaluate participation and interaction in discussion forums was examined. This study showed that SNA metrics and the visualization of interactions are useful and potentially effective tools to analize online interaction patterns.
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spelling doaj.art-255d43a39f7c40b6ab072bfbf6b0ebab2022-12-21T20:30:46ZspaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaREDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales1579-01852008-06-01146Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.Willging, Pedro A.Asynchronous forums, e-mail lists, and chat rooms create virtuaql environments where it may not be easy to detect communication problemas among the participants. Anyone who wants to teach through an online environment finds that current learning management systems do not provide enough information about the communication structure of the group, level of participation, and other structural characteristics of the interactions that happen in this environment. In this work, the use of social network analisis methods (SNA) and visualizations for online environments had been explored. The procedures to create the visual objects that represent intangible online interactions are shown and the usefulness of these images as devices for data pattern recognition is analized.The validity of SNA techniques and visualizations as tools for instructors of online courses and researchers to evaluate participation and interaction in discussion forums was examined. This study showed that SNA metrics and the visualization of interactions are useful and potentially effective tools to analize online interaction patterns.http://revista-redes.rediris.es/pdf-vol14/vol14_6.pdfOnline interactions – Virtual environments – Visualizations.
spellingShingle Willging, Pedro A.
Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
REDES: Revista Hispana para el Análisis de Redes Sociales
Online interactions – Virtual environments – Visualizations.
title Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
title_full Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
title_fullStr Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
title_full_unstemmed Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
title_short Técnicas para el análisis y visualización de interacciones en ambientes virtuales.
title_sort tecnicas para el analisis y visualizacion de interacciones en ambientes virtuales
topic Online interactions – Virtual environments – Visualizations.
url http://revista-redes.rediris.es/pdf-vol14/vol14_6.pdf
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