Background Online discussion is one of the commonly used tools to enhance students'
interactions and engagements in online courses, but it is not clear how social presence in …

This mixed method study used social network analysis (SNA) and inductive qualitative
analysis to compare social relationships and the underlying interactions they represent in …

Background Collaborative learning facilitates reflection, diversifies understanding and
stimulates skills of critical and higher-order thinking. Although the benefits of collaborative …

Many courses are currently delivered using Course Management Systems (CMS).
Discussion forums within these systems provide the basis for collaborative learning. In this …

Although many college courses adopt online tools such as Q&A online discussion boards,
there is no easy way to measure or evaluate their effect on learning. As a part of supporting …

E-learning is a response to the new educational needs of society and an important
development in information and communication technologies because it represents the …

This paper reports the findings of a study that measured the effectiveness of employing
automatic text translation methods in automated classification of online discussion …

In this study, we explore the cognitive style profiles and linguistic patterns of self-organizing
groups within a web-based graduate education course to determine how cognitive …

This study examines the impact of content-based network partitioning and tie definition on
social network structures and interpretation for MOOC discussion forums. Using dynamic …

This paper proposes a multilayered methodology for analyzing distance learning students'
data to gain insight into the learning progress of the student subjects both in an individual …