RTD: Participating from Near and Far: Analyzing Online Graduate Learning Communities with Social Network Analysis

• In Event: Roundtables Wed1
  In Roundtable Session: RTD - Roundtables Wed1

Short Description

We set out to study how social media builds online community within courses and throughout the program in both intentional and serendipitous ways by examining more than 10,000 tweets related to a Master of Arts in Educational Technology (MAET) program. Specifically, we used social network analysis tools to examine how new users become more central over time and determine what network-level factors may be associated with this development and identify hashtags for further investigation.

Authors

• Joshua Michael Rosenberg, Michigan State University

• Spencer P. Greenhalgh, Michigan State University

• Leigh Graves Wolf, Michigan State University