Evaluating the complementarity of communication tools for learning platforms
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Computer Education, Network Science and Online Social Networks, Social Computing
- Keywords
- Social Media, Evaluation, Educational Organization, Communication Tools
- Copyright
- © 2017 Carvalho et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2017. Evaluating the complementarity of communication tools for learning platforms. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3114v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3114v2
Abstract
Due to the constant innovations in communications tools, several educational institutions are continually evaluating the adoption of new communication tools (NCT) for their adopted learning platforms (LP). Notably, many educational institutions are interested in checking if NCT is bringing benefits in their teaching and learning process. We can state an important problem that tackles this interest as for how to identify when NCT is providing a significantly different complementary communication flow concerning the current communication tools (CCT) provided at LP. This paper presents the Mixed Graph Framework (MGF) to address the problem of measuring the complementarity of an NCT in the scenario where some CCT is already established. Since we are interested in the methodological process, we evaluated MGF using synthetic data. Our experiments observed that the MGF was able to identify whether an NCT produces significant changes in the overall communications of an LP according to some centrality measures.
Author Comment
Due to reviewers feedback, the paper changed its focus.