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Exploring Medical Curricula Using Social Network Analysis Methods

VÍTA, Martin, Martin KOMENDA and Andrea POKORNÁ

Basic information

Original name

Exploring Medical Curricula Using Social Network Analysis Methods

Authors

VÍTA, Martin (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin KOMENDA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Andrea POKORNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Warsaw, Los Alamitos, Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, p. 297-302, 6 pp. 2015

Publisher

Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne, IEEE

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/15:00084515

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

ISBN

978-83-60810-66-8

ISSN

UT WoS

000376494300037

Keywords in English

analysis; educational data
Změněno: 2/11/2015 13:22, Ing. Mgr. Věra Pospíšilíková

Abstract

V originále

This contribution demonstrates how to apply concepts of social network analysis on educational data. The main aim of this approach is to provide a deeper insight into the structure of courses and/or other learning units that belong to a given curriculum in order to improve the learning process. The presented work can help us discover communities of similar study disciplines (based on the similarity measures of textual descriptions of their contents), as well as identify important courses strongly linked to others, and also find more independent and less important parts of the curriculum using centrality measures arising from the graph theory and social network analysis.