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A social learning network (SLN) is a type of social network that results from interaction between learners, teachers, and modules of learning.〔Brinton, Christopher G., and Mung Chiang. "Social learning networks: A brief survey." Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2014 48th Annual Conference on. IEEE, 2014.〕 The modules and actors who form the SLN are defined by the specific social learning process taking place.〔Haythornthwaite, Caroline, and Maarten De Laat. "Social networks and learning networks: Using social network perspectives to understand social learning." 7th International Conference on Networked Learning. 2010.〕 The set of learners and the set of teachers in an SLN cannot be disjoint. Rather, an SLN is an evolving peer learning process in which learners acquire, master, and then themselves disseminate knowledge to others over time. At any given time, an actor in an SLN is a teacher of concepts she has mastered, and a learner of those she is not yet familiar with. Collaborative learning has been identified as an important part of SLN formation, because actors can work together and combine their respective skills to solve problems.〔Huang, Jeff JS, et al. "Social Learning Networks: Build Mobile Learning Networks Based on Collaborative Services." Educational Technology & Society 13.3 (2010): 78-92.〕 == Applications == A number of learning scenarios that give rise to social learning networks have been identified. Some of these have a designated teacher and/or teaching staff, while others rely entirely on peer-based instruction: * Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), where learning content is created by a designated instructor and/or teaching staff, and the primary means of interaction between students are discussion forums. Since the student bodies of MOOC can reach hundreds of thousands in size, the teacher-to-student ratios are typically fractions of one percent.〔Christopher Brinton, Mung Chiang, Shaili Jain, Henry Lam, Zhenming Liu, and Felix Ming Fai Wong. "Learning about social learning in moocs: From statistical analysis to generative model." arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.2159 (2013).〕 As a result of this, peer-based learning has been found to be critical to the scalability of the learning process.〔Glance, David George, Martin Forsey, and Myles Riley. "The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses." First Monday 18.5 (2013).〕 * Flipped classrooms (FLIP), where class time is primarily used for discussion of course material, rather than as a traditional lecture period. Compared with MOOC, the SLN for FLIP will be at least partially formed through face-to-face communication.〔Herreid, Clyde Freeman, and Nancy A. Schiller. "Case studies and the flipped classroom." Journal of College Science Teaching 42.5 (2013): 62-66.〕 * Training and development initiatives in which the instructor puts particular emphasis on social learning. For example, corporations will sometimes encourage enterprise social networking among employees and supply an internal networking service for this purpose.〔DiMicco, Joan, et al. "Motivations for social networking at work." Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work. ACM, 2008.〕 * Question and answer sites (Q&A), where there is typically a common forum on which users can post questions, answer questions, comment on answers, and up/down-vote posts. The SLN on Q&A sites is formed entirely through social interaction on these forums.〔Anderson, Ashton, et al. "Discovering value from community activity on focused question answering sites: a case study of stack overflow." Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM, 2012.〕 * Review sites, where contributors learn from one another through a collective sharing of knowledge about experiences with items. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Social learning network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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