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Distribution of Replies in all Forums
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1000
100
10
1
0.1
0
5
10
15
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35
No of Reply
Figure16.4
Distributionofrepliesinforums.(FromYeung,Y.2005.Macroscopic
study of the social networks formed in web-based discussion forums. In
Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative
Learning: Learning 2005: The Next 10 Years!
(Taipei,Taiwan,May30-June04,
2005).ComputerSupportforCollaborativeLearning.InternationalSocietyofthe
LearningSciences,727-731.)
Distribution of Views in all Forums
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10
100
1000
No of Views
Figure16.5
Distributionofviewsinforums.(FromYeung,Y.2005.Macroscopic
study of the social networks formed in web-based discussion forums. In
Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative
Learning: Learning 2005: The Next 10 Years!
(Taipei,Taiwan,May30-June04,
2005).ComputerSupportforCollaborativeLearning.InternationalSocietyofthe
LearningSciences,727-731.)
where
M
=
4.3
and
S
=
0.92.
his implies that for each set of messages submitted
around a certain topic, there will be most likely
e
m s
2
2
=
(
−
/ )
113
viewers, or an aver-
age of
e
m s
2
2
32
viewers. It is inportant to emphasize that the number of viewers
will increase as long as the Web-based discussion exists.
Finally, for studying the relationship between the forum participants, a smaller
collaborative learning network was constructed using the UCINET and PAJEk
−
=
(
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