TY - GEN
T1 - A study of the correlation between online tutors' social network position and their performance
AU - Wang, Aihua
AU - Zhang, Xiaolei
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The paper applies the SNA methods to analyze the social network formed by the actors in the Working Forum of E-Learning Workshop set up by School of Distance Education of the Peking University. It finds that some actors participating in the Working Forum of E-learning Workshop are in the center of the network map and some are at the far edge, and of those who are in the center of the network map, most are online tutors. It also finds that the online tutors' centrality in the Working Forum is positively correlated with their performance remuneration, especially when they have served as online tutor for many times. So it suggests that the centrality of an online tutor in the Working Forum can be regarded as an evaluation factor to form a more comprehensive evaluation framework of online tutors.
AB - The paper applies the SNA methods to analyze the social network formed by the actors in the Working Forum of E-Learning Workshop set up by School of Distance Education of the Peking University. It finds that some actors participating in the Working Forum of E-learning Workshop are in the center of the network map and some are at the far edge, and of those who are in the center of the network map, most are online tutors. It also finds that the online tutors' centrality in the Working Forum is positively correlated with their performance remuneration, especially when they have served as online tutor for many times. So it suggests that the centrality of an online tutor in the Working Forum can be regarded as an evaluation factor to form a more comprehensive evaluation framework of online tutors.
KW - VLC (Virtual Learning Community)
KW - centrality
KW - online tutors
KW - social network analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84864994926
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-32018-7_33
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84864994926
SN - 9783642320170
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 351
EP - 361
BT - Hybrid Learning - 5th International Conference, ICHL 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 5th International Conference on Hybrid Learning, ICHL 2012
Y2 - 13 August 2012 through 15 August 2012
ER -