Analyzing a Blended Learning Model Through Social Network Analysis

• In Event: 66.068 - Social Issues in Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership Programs

Abstract

The following report is a social network analysis (SNA) of online threaded discussions from three blending learning cohorts. The purpose of this SNA was to explore graduate level blended learning cohorts by investigating how the relationships and interactions among individuals shape and affect the overall cohort, to explore the evolution of each cohort over time, and to investigate facilitator interactions within the blended learning program and how their contributions shaped and affected the network.
The threaded discussions were coded and analyzed based on literature about SNA. The stability of the participants and the facilitators generated social network outcomes from all four quarters of each cohort. Discussion of the analysis and further recommendations for research has been included in this report.

Author

• Kelley C Bliden, Jefferson County Public Schools