snapp: a small step
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Introduction
• SNAPP a quick history
• An overview
• Measuring creativity
• Need to bring in content analysis
More intuitive
visualisations
Connections
Report overload
Tool usage
Identified what tools are used across an institution
- Content page & discussion forum
• Social Networks Adapting Pedagogical Practice
• Focus on student relationships (learning networks)
• Simple visualizations to assist with interpretation and evaluate impact of activities
SNAPP
But no access to LMS database
- Bookmarklet
SNAPP
SNAPP
• No need to access database
• No need for Admin rights (installation of a bookmark)
• Broad accessibility and compatibility
• Fast delivery mechanisms – focus on simplicity
SNAPP
SNAPP
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Forum 1 Forum 2
SNAPP
Forum 1 Forum 2
Visualisations for interpretation
• Can we identify creativity in development or only as an outcome/product?
• Social networks?
Creativity
Ronald Burt
“…see early and more broadly”
Communication
Problem solving
Translators of information
Burt, R. (1992). Structural holes: The social structure of competition. Cambridge, Mass:
Harvard University Press.
Creativity
Bridging structural holes
Creativity
Student cognitive playfulness and creativity
Mapping network centrality measures- Betweenness- Closeness- Degrees
Dawson, S., Tan, J. P. L., & McWilliam, E. (2011). Measuring creative potential: Using social
network analysis to monitor a learners' creative capacity. Australasian Journal of Educational
Technology, 27(6), 924-942.
Creativity
Creativity
Self-reported high levels of creativity – brokers in the network
• How does this translate to future graduate qualities?• Creativity within the workplace?
Creativity
Missing
Discourse analysis
Assessment of the
quality of exchanges
Understanding of why
connections formed