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Of Collaborative Learning Team: An Approach for Emergent Leadership Roles Identification by Using Social Network Analysis

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Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment (Edutainment 2006)

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Abstract

The ability to better understand role performing during the learning process of a collaborative learning team is very crucial, in order to effectively support online students. Leadership roles which have the most influence in directing the team should be carefully recognized. Identifying the emergent team leaders is challenging because these roles are normally distributed and shifted among team members over time. In this paper, a new approach for the leadership roles identification is, thus proposed. The collaboration patterns are examined with different points of social network views to discover the network locations of the leaders. The proposed leadership index is a combination of degree of centrality, closeness and betweenness. The experiment and the simulation results indicate that the proposed index is promising.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thonburi, Bangkok, 10140, Thailand

    Punnarumol Temdee, Bundit Thipakorn & Booncharoen Sirinaovakul

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Bremen, D-28334, Bremen, Germany

    Heidi Schelhowe

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  1. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Fraunhofer IGD, Joachim-Jungius-Strasse 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Holger Diener

  4. State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, P.R. China

    Xiaogang Jin

  5. Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Rundeturmstr. 10, P.O. Box, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Stefan Göbel

  6. School of Management, Shenzhen University, 518060, Shenzhen, P.R. China

    Li Li

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Temdee, P., Thipakorn, B., Sirinaovakul, B., Schelhowe, H. (2006). Of Collaborative Learning Team: An Approach for Emergent Leadership Roles Identification by Using Social Network Analysis. In: Pan, Z., Aylett, R., Diener, H., Jin, X., Göbel, S., Li, L. (eds) Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment. Edutainment 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3942. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11736639_92

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  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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