Empirical Study of Social Capital of Learning Community

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23501157
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational technology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: TAGAWA Takahiro 九州大学, 情報基盤研究開発センター, 助教 (70304764)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YASUTAKE Koichi 広島大学, 社会科学研究科, 准教授 (80253664) ; YAMAKAWA Osamu 福井県立大学, 学術教養センター, 教授 (90230325) ; SUMIYA Takahiro 広島大学, 情報メディア教育研究センター, 准教授 (90231381) ; INOUE Hitoshi 九州大学, 情報基盤研究開発センター, 准教授 (70232552)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 学習履歴分析 / ネットワーク分析 / 学習支援システム / ソーシャル・キャピタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We proposed the method to measure and grasp the degree of supporting effect of learning in a group for the learning of individual, from the analysis of communication logs of an university social network services. By carving out subgroups from whole group of learners, and calculating the network indexes of respective nodes and (sub)network, we can guess the supporting effect for learning expectable from surrounding interaction.

Free Research Field

教育工学