automated content analysis

Automated social-presence coding was linked with learners' positions in a MOOC network

Wenting Zou, Zilong Pan, Chenglu Li, Min Liu

2nd International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography (ICQE 2020)

Whether categories of social presence in discussion posts are associated with learners' structural positions in a MOOC interaction network. Certain forms of social presence correlated positively with network measures, and position groups differed in the social-presence patterns they displayed. Correlations between classified language and network position do not show that strategic posting causes engagement, and both classifier error and platform participation shape the observed relations.

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