Peer Promotions as a Method to Identify Quality Content

Authors

  • Bjorn Levi Gunnarsson Brandeis University
  • Richard Alterman Brandeis University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2014.12.7

Keywords:

Blogging, social blogging, liking, promoting, assessment, quality content, learning analytics, knowledge community, social recommendation, recommender system

Abstract

Promoting blog content is a social activity — a means of communicating one student’s appreciation of another student’s work. This article explores the feasibility of using student promotions of content, in a blogosphere, to identify quality content, and implications for students and instructors. We show that students actively and voluntarily promote content, identify quality material with considerable accuracy, and use promotion data to select what to read. We explore the benefits of knowing which students are good and poor predictors of quality content, and what instructors can do with this information in terms of feedback and guidance.

Author Biographies

Bjorn Levi Gunnarsson, Brandeis University

Ph.D student, Computer Science

Richard Alterman, Brandeis University

Professor, Computer Science

Affiliations: Psychology, Volen Center for Complex Systems

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Published

2014-08-07

How to Cite

Gunnarsson, B. L., & Alterman, R. (2014). Peer Promotions as a Method to Identify Quality Content. Journal of Learning Analytics, 1(2), 126-150. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2014.12.7

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014): Selected and Extended Papers from the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge

Section

Special Issue - LAK'13 selected, extended, and revised papers

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