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Understanding promotions in a case study of student blogging

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Bjorn Levi Gunnarsson and

Richard AltermanAuthors Info & Claims

LAK '13: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

April 2013

Pages 57 - 65

https://doi.org/10.1145/2460296.2460309

Published: 08 April 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Promoting blog content is a social activity; it is a means of communicating one student's appreciation of another student's work. This paper explores the feasibility of using student promotions of content, in a blogosphere, to identify quality content, and implications for instructors. We show that students actively and voluntarily promote content, use promotion data to select which posts to read, and with considerable accuracy identify quality material. We explore the benefits of knowing which students are good and poor predictors of quality content, and what instructors can do with this information in terms of feedback and guidance.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-017-9250-1
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LAK '13: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

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Milligan S(2020)Standards for Developing Assessments of Learning Using Process DataRe-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World10.1007/978-3-030-41956-1_13(179-192)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2020
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Alterman RHarsch K(2017)A more reflective form of joint problem solvingInternational Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning10.1007/s11412-017-9250-112:1(9-33)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-017-9250-1
Wang JXu XWu XHu XYang Y(2014)Characterizing Patterns of Chinese Yiban Blogging ServiceProceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery10.1109/CyberC.2014.41(183-186)Online publication date: 13-Oct-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CyberC.2014.41

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