Learning with digital media: Investigating the relationship between student citation networks, assignment structures, and learning outcomes

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Abstract

Students are comfortable sharing digital content with others, yet the effect of sharing of digital media for learning remains largely unexplored. Building on research in social network analysis and learning analytics, this research explores the use and sharing of digital media in learning activities, analyzing the effects of the design of the learning activities on the resulting networks of students and their cited resources, and exploring relationships between attributes of these citation networks and students' perceptions of the learning outcomes. Results suggest that the extent to which an assignment is well-structured and converges towards a single solution positively influences the density and clustering coefficient of the resulting citation network, and that these network measures in turn have a positive influence on students' perceptions of learning from the assignment.

Identifier

85060610386 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9780998133102]

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

ISSN

15301605

First Page

2086

Last Page

2095

Volume

2017-January

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