TY - GEN
T1 - How voluntary online learning communities emerge in blended courses
AU - Heckman, Robert
AU - Li, Qing
AU - Xiao, Xue
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A comparative case study used content analysis to observe the emergence of voluntary online learning communities in two blended courses. The study developed an interaction-based approach to analyze such communities, and found interesting similarities and differences between the two classes. One similarity is the emergence of three categories of students in each class: Core, Active, and Peripheral. The distribution of students into these three categories was almost identical, and appears to be similar to the widely observed bibliographic distribution regularity known as Bradford's Law.
AB - A comparative case study used content analysis to observe the emergence of voluntary online learning communities in two blended courses. The study developed an interaction-based approach to analyze such communities, and found interesting similarities and differences between the two classes. One similarity is the emergence of three categories of students in each class: Core, Active, and Peripheral. The distribution of students into these three categories was almost identical, and appears to be similar to the widely observed bibliographic distribution regularity known as Bradford's Law.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.206
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.206
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749643853
SN - 0769525075
SN - 9780769525075
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 3c
BT - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
T2 - 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
Y2 - 4 January 2006 through 7 January 2006
ER -