Dynamical user networking and profiling based on activity streams for enhanced social learning

Abstract

Recently, social media enhanced learning has become more and more popular. It is featured as learning through interaction and collaboration in a community or across a social network, which can be considered as a kind of social learning. In this study, we integrate SNS (such as twitter) into the web-based learning process and further delve into the discovery of potential information from the reorganized stream data. We propose a Dynamical Socialized User Networking (DSUN) model which represents users' profiling and dynamical relationship by a set of measures. Finally, we show an application scenario of the DSUN model to assist the learning process and enhance the learning efficiency in web-based environments. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.