Social Network Formation and its Impact on Learning in MOOC-Eds

Summary: Peer interaction in MOOCs for K-12 educators, influenced in part by underlying network mechanisms, resulted in productive and meaningful exchanges driven largely by small core of highly engaged participants.

Written by Shaun Kellogg, Sherry Booth, and Kevin Oliver for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation MOOC Research Initiative. This report has not yet been peer-reviewed.

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