Investigation of Social Networks and Discussions in STEM Education Communities on Twitter

With the increasing importance of STEM education and the popularity of micro blogging, it becomes important to study the nature of the social network within STEM education in order to observe how members of that community work together. A social network analysis (SNA) was conducted to examine the na...

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Veröffentlicht in:2015 International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering S. 128 - 133
Hauptverfasser: Yuen, Timothy T., Pickering, Trevor A.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.04.2015
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Communities
Education
ICT in education
Media
NASA
social network analysis
STEM education
Twitter
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Zusammenfassung:With the increasing importance of STEM education and the popularity of micro blogging, it becomes important to study the nature of the social network within STEM education in order to observe how members of that community work together. A social network analysis (SNA) was conducted to examine the nature of the STEM education community and its key players on Twitter. The findings from the SNA will show: categories of the key players in this social network, to what extent a community exists on the Twitter platform, and the types of interactions that users contribute to the community, and kinds of information being discussed.
DOI:10.1109/LaTiCE.2015.20