From my point of view the event was excellent even there are some things to change, nearly all students desire to participate again. I don't want go deep in details what is summer school and how it was as many bloggers have already done this: Annafant's Notizblog (Anna Lea Dyckhoff), Summer School Fun (Erik Duval's blog) , Pontydysgu (Graham Attwell's blog)
The other thing i want to do is the reflections of our "SNA Workshop" that we have done together with Ralf Klamma. The purpose of it was to introduce TEL people with SNA basics and explain what they can find applying applying SNA analysis for E-Learning communities.
First steps in social network analysis
After presentation we asked students to calculate 3 simplest SNA centrality measures: degree centrality, betweenness centrality and closeness centrality. According to reactions of students i changed the tutorial for the workshop. Now it has many examples and easy enough for anybody to understand sometimes tough or weird mathematical stuff.View more presentations from telss09.
SNAWorkshop
Some of you asked me about evidences and examples of SNA applications in E-Learning world. One of the examples is excellent work from Ruth Breuer that made SNA analysis of 45000 European schools. The application called EVA and the paper work about it will appear on the EC-TEL'09
The other paper i read recently "Patterns of participation and discourse in elementary students’ computer-supported collaborative learning" from Lasse Lipponen, Marjaana Rahikainen, Jiri Lallimo and Kai Hakkarainen discusses benefits and flaws of high/low density(depends on degree centrality) in learning networks.
Within ROLE project we are analyzing media networks collaborations within learning environments. I think that in next decades there will be a lot of news to report about our achievements.
