Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms

Rafa Absar; Anatoliy Gruzd; Caroline Haythornthwaite; Drew Paulin

doi:10.1145/2872518.2890458

Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms

Rafa Absar, Anatoliy Gruzd, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Drew Paulin

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine how multiple social media platforms are being used for formal and informal learning by examining data from two connectivist MOOCs (or cMOOCs). Our overarching goal is to develop and evaluate methods for learning analytics to detect and study collaborative learning processes. For this paper, we focus on how to link multiple online identities of learners and their contributions across several social media platforms in order to study their learning behaviours in open online environments. Many challenges were found in collection, processing, and analyzing the data; results are presented here to provide others with insight into such issues for examining data across multiple open media platforms.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	483-488
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450341448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2890458
State	Published - Apr 11 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016 - Montreal, Canada Duration: May 11 2016 → May 15 2016

Publication series

Name	WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web

Conference

Conference	25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	5/11/16 → 5/15/16

Keywords

connectivism
learning
moocs.
social media
social networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Software

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Absar, R., Gruzd, A., Haythornthwaite, C., & Paulin, D. (2016). Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. In WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (pp. 483-488). (WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2890458

Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. / Absar, Rafa; Gruzd, Anatoliy; Haythornthwaite, Caroline et al.
WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. p. 483-488 (WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/Poem › Conference contribution

Absar, R, Gruzd, A, Haythornthwaite, C & Paulin, D 2016, Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. in WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 483-488, 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016, Montreal, Canada, 5/11/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2872518.2890458

Absar R, Gruzd A, Haythornthwaite C, Paulin D. Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. In WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2016. p. 483-488. (WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web). doi: 10.1145/2872518.2890458

Absar, Rafa ; Gruzd, Anatoliy ; Haythornthwaite, Caroline et al. / Linking Online Identities and Content in Connectivist MOOCs across Multiple Social Media Platforms. WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2016. pp. 483-488 (WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web).

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