Poster #53 - Social Network Interaction and Self-Regulated Learning Skills in Online Discussion

• In Event: 77.059 - MTCC Tuesday Poster Session 18
  In Poster Session: 77.059-8 - Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

Self-regulated learning (SRL) skills are critical to online discussion instructions. But it is unclear how students may develop social network interaction and how SRL skills may relate to network interaction development. This study empirically investigated how various aspects of students’ prominence in online social network interaction will change over time. Moreover, it examined how self-regulated learning skills may moderate the trends over time in various aspects of students’ social network interaction. The findings suggested that students’ closeness centrality increased over time. In addition, the aforementioned trend in closeness centrality could be generalized to students of various levels of SRL skills.

Authors

• Cherng-Jyh Yen, Old Dominion University

• Chih-Hsiung Tu, Northern Arizona University

• Laura Esthela Sujo-Montes, Northern Arizona University

• Hoda Harati, North arizona university

• Claudia Rodas, Northern Arizona University