Informal Learning Communities: The Other Massive Open Online 'C'
summary
Study analyzes 62 communities with a tag-based typology (seven tag categories) and five deep case studies (Stack Overflow, WikiHow, FanFiction.net), uses the Reddit API to pull metadata, defines engaged users as those who posted or responded, and reports concrete counts: a language-learning subreddit has ~240,000 subscribers and ~15,000 engaged users versus MOOC medians of 7,900 enrolled and 1,500 engaged. Focused communities show higher percent initiator-responders and greater average engagements using correlations and p-values.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to study
- 1:29Why study informal communities
- 2:33Typology of community features
- 4:40Case studies overview
- 5:22Stack Overflow analysis
- 7:24WikiHow community
- 8:08Fanfiction.net dynamics
- 9:30Quantitative analytics
- 13:00Key findings summary
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