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The forum is one of the auxiliary tools for formal learning. Some studies have shown that students’ performance in the forum is strongly related to their learning effectiveness. This study took the online forum posting texts in the blended class of Educational Technology Research Methodology as the research object. First, the literature analysis method was adopted to comb and analyze the related research, and the social network analysis method was used to find out the learners who participated in the interaction in the forum and characterize their features. Next, a statistical analysis tool was used to cluster the learners, thus they were divided into three types those were activists, followers, and silencers. Then, the correlation analysis was performed with the number of interactions between the three types of learners in the forum and the academic scores. Semantic analysis was used to analyze learners’ emotions, and different learners’ emotions were correlated with their academic performance. The study found that in the blended class, there was no significant correlation between the number of interactions among different types of learners and their course performance, and there was a significant correlation between the emotional coefficient and the course performance. Finally, this paper proposed some instructional strategies in the forum of blended class.
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Zuo, M., Xu, Y., Wang, Z., Zhao, R., Li, X. (2019). Analysis of Forum Interaction Behavior Based on Cloud Class. In: Cheung, S., Jiao, J., Lee, LK., Zhang, X., Li, K., Zhan, Z. (eds) Technology in Education: Pedagogical Innovations. ICTE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1048. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9895-7_12
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