scholarly journals Refining qualitative ethnographies using Epistemic Network Analysis: A study of socioemotional learning dimensions in a Humanistic Knowledge Building Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 156 ◽  
pp. 103943
Author(s):  
Yotam Hod ◽  
Shir Katz ◽  
Brendan Eagan
Author(s):  
Donald N. Philip

This paper describes use of social network analysis to examine student interaction patterns in a Grade 5/6 Knowledge Building class. The analysis included face-to-face interactions and interactions in the Knowledge Forum® Knowledge Building environment. It is argued that sociogram data are useful to reveal group processes; in sociological terms, the community lies in the connections among the group. A classroom of unconnected individuals is unlikely to form as a Knowledge Building community; data analyses reported in this study show promise in understanding the dynamics of Knowledge Building in a consistent and measurable way. The strength of the work is not in particular patterns demonstrated but in new forms of assessment and their potential to inform work as it proceeds. The research reported shows that teachers and students are finding social network analysis useful and that through their engagement research-practitioner-engineer teams are better positioned to develop tools to advance Knowledge Building pedagogy.


Author(s):  
Donald N. Philip

The purpose of this study was to examine the progress of a class of third- and fourth-year undergraduate science students as they attempted to create a knowledge building community in a blended or hybrid science education class. The research sought to examine this process through analyses of the frequency of their note postings and responses, and through a social network analysis of their communication patterns for note reading. These data were automatically harvested by the Knowledge Forum knowledge building environment, and downloaded for later analysis. Contribution levels indicated that the frequency of note postings increased three-fold following the mid-term of the course causing maladaptive student work patterns to reduce information overload. As well, the disparity between high-frequency note posting students and low-frequency note posting students followed a linear curve with the ratio between the highest posting and lowest posting student to be 2.7:1. A similar pattern was found with regard to responses. A disparity was also found among the students in the number of postings read, with the highest note reading student reading six times the number of notes as the lowest note reading student.The social network analyses revealed evidence of community formation in the note reading network. Analysis showed both one-way and reciprocal interactions, indicating that the pathways needed for the transfer of complex information were present. Considering all the data together, while some communication patterns necessary for a knowledge building community were present, contribution patterns suggested that a true knowledge building community did not form, but that there was progress towards it. Cette étude avait pour objet d’étudier la progression d’un groupe d’étudiants en sciences de troisième et de quatrième années du premier cycle universitaire dans leur tentative de créer une communauté d’apprentissage dans une classe hybride d’étude des sciences. Cette recherche visait à étudier le processus à partir de l’analyse de la fréquence d’affichage et de réponse aux notes de la part des étudiants, et de l’analyse de leurs habitudes de communication lors de la lecture de notes. Ces données étaient recueillies automatiquement par l’environnement de partage des connaissances Knowledge Forum et téléchargées pour des analyses ultérieures. Les niveaux de participation indiquaient que la fréquence des affichages de notes augmentait du triple après la mi-session, entraînant une réduction de la surcharge d’information dans les habitudes de travail sources d’une mauvaise adaptation chez les étudiants. De plus, la disparité entre les étudiants qui affichaient fréquemment et les étudiants qui affichaient peu suivait une courbe linéaire selon le rapport 2,7 :1. Le profil des réponses aux notes présentait une tendance similaire. On observait également une disparité entre les étudiants du point de vue du nombre d’affichages lus, où les étudiants dont la fréquence de lecture était plus élevée lisaient six fois plus d’affichages que les étudiants dont la fréquence de lecture était moins élevée. Les analyses du réseau social ont révélé des formations communautaires dans le réseau de lecture des notes. L’analyse a démontré des interactions tant à sens unique que réciproques, indiquant que les canaux nécessaires à la transmission d’informations complexes étaient présentes. Compte tenu de l’ensemble de ces données, malgré la présence de certaines habitudes de communication nécessaires à la formation d’une communauté d’apprentissage, les tendances observées dans la participation suggèrent qu’une véritable communauté d’apprentissage ne s’est pas formée; néanmoins, elles dénotent une progression en ce sens.


Author(s):  
Nimini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Rajeev K. Bali

In a dynamic and complex global environment traditional approaches to healthcare delivery are becoming more and more inadequate. To address this von Lubitz and Wickramasinghe (2006e) proffered the need for a networkcentric approach that allows free and rapid sharing of information and effective knowledge building required for the development of coherent objectives and their rapid attainment. However, to realize this vision it is essential to have rich theory and robust approaches to analyse the levels of complexity of modern healthcare delivery. This paper discusses how this might be done by drawing upon the strong rich analysis tools and techniques of Social Network Analysis combined with Actor Network Theory.


2011 ◽  
pp. 2206-2217
Author(s):  
Nimini Wickramasinghe ◽  
Rajeev K. Bali

In the information-intensive environment of healthcare, the networkcentric approach has been proffered as one that allows free and rapid sharing of information and effective knowledge building required for the development of coherent objectives and their rapid attainment. This article asserts that if we are to realize such a vision it is imperative to draw upon strong rich analysis tools and techniques and thus calls for the application of Social Network Analysis combined with Actor-network Theory (S’ANT).


2021 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos ◽  
Carlos Rodríguez-Domínguez ◽  
Francisco Carranza-García ◽  
Gabriel Navarro-Garulo

Author(s):  
Donald N. Philip

Teachers using online learning environments have found that traditional classroom control techniques do not work when applied online. Instead, other approaches need to be used. This chapter introduces the concept of knowledge-building as an approach that is effective in online learning, and the concept of protocological control as a means of controlling the communications networks that evolve during the learning process. Data from a study involving students in a gr. 5/6 hybrid (online and face-to-face) class are used to illustrate how the teacher controls the learning process when the students all work independently of each other. The use of social network analysis as a tool for visualizing the communications networks that form is demonstrated.


2020 ◽  
Vol 121 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 533-547
Author(s):  
Kalani Craig ◽  
Megan Humburg ◽  
Joshua A. Danish ◽  
Maksymilian Szostalo ◽  
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver ◽  
...  

Purpose The authors explored shifts in social interactions, content engagement and history learning as students who were studying one pandemic simultaneously experienced another. This paper aims to understand how the Net.Create network visualization tool would support students as they tried to understand the many complex interactions in a historical text in a remote learning environment and how sustained knowledge building using Net.Create would shape student attitudes toward remote learning, collaboration and engagement. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores changes in engagement and learning in a survey-level history course on the black death after a shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors used activity theory to focus the adaptation of Net.Create, a web-based collaborative social-network-analysis tool and to understand how it supported group-based remote learning. The authors describe how the redesigned activities sustained engagement with historical content and report coded student network entries, reading responses and surveys to illustrate changes in engagement and learning. Findings The results suggest that students benefit from personal connections to historical content and their peers. Net.Create supported both through collaborative knowledge-building activities and reflection on how their quarantine experiences compared to the historical content they read. It is possible to avoid student frustrations with traditional “group work” even in a remote environment by supporting collaborative learning using Net.Create and a mix of individual and group contributions. Originality/value This is the first use of a collaborative network visualization tool to support large classroom interaction and engagement with history content at the undergraduate level.


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