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Small World Networks in Education Sciences

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Networks with a small world topology are distinguished by the characteristics of their connections, allowing two nodes, distant from each other, to be linked by a shorter path. This work relates the concept of small world network in the area of Education Sciences in particular in the integration of teaching cloister in the world system of higher education. A relation is established with micro-world and nanoworld concepts defined in previous works and the term of constellations of small worlds is defined, which allows to group subsets of the network that we analyze. It is concluded that the concept of small world network can be understood in the integration of teaching cloisters to the world system of higher education, which would allow to increase the quality of teaching and research work in Latin America.

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  1. Rethinking the Education – Educational Innovation Group, Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo, Fernando Pesántez-Avilés & Diego Peñaloza-Rivera

  2. Research Group on Artificial Intelligence and Assistance Technologies (GIIATA), Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo & Fernando Pesántez-Avilés

  3. Cátedra UNESCO – Education for Inclusion, Salesian Polytechnic University, Cuenca, Ecuador

    Miguel Arcos-Argudo & Fernando Pesántez-Avilés

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  1. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  2. Safety Solutions, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland

    Anna-Maria Teperi

  3. Department of Production Management and Logistics, Faculty of Management and Production Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Aleksandra Polak-Sopińska

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Arcos-Argudo, M., Pesántez-Avilés, F., Peñaloza-Rivera, D. (2019). Small World Networks in Education Sciences. In: Nazir, S., Teperi, AM., Polak-Sopińska, A. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Training, Education, and Learning Sciences. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93882-0_7

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