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ASONAM 2018: Influence and Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Social Media pp 1–25Cite as

Social Network to Improve the Educational Experience with the Deployment of Different Learning Models

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Today, social networks (SNs) play an important role in the development of society. This is underpinned by the rapid growth they have experienced in recent years and their welcome for the deployment of a myriad of activities, including education. However, despite all the advantages they offer in the academic field, they present serious disadvantages that cannot be ignored: from lack of privacy to social isolation. For this reason, this paper presents OPPIA, an educational SN that includes three learning models: self-learning, tutoring learning, and collaborative learning. Thus, being a SN, it allows each individual to share information, with the difference that it focuses fully on education. In addition, it deploys sporadic learning networks (SLNs), which connect students with experts in any subject matter, without the need for prior contact. To evaluate the performance of OPPIA, students responded to questionnaires, whose results corroborate its use as an educational tool.

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    https://www.socialbakers.com/statistics/facebook/.

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    https://fortunelords.com/youtube-statistics/.

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    https://www.omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statistics/.

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    https://wearesocial.com/special-reports/digital-in-2017-global-overview.

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    www.ibm.com/analytics/data-science/predictive-analytics/spss-statistical-software.

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    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/.

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    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/.

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The authors would like to express their gratitude to Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, sede Cuenca, for the support provided for the development of this work.

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    Paúl Esteban Vintimilla-Tapia, Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres & Esteban Fernando Ordóñez-Morales

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    Pablo Leonidas Gallegos-Segovia

  3. AtlantTIC Research Center, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

    Martín López-Nores & Yolanda Blanco-Fernández

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Vintimilla-Tapia, P.E., Bravo-Torres, J.F., Gallegos-Segovia, P.L., Ordóñez-Morales, E.F., López-Nores, M., Blanco-Fernández, Y. (2019). Social Network to Improve the Educational Experience with the Deployment of Different Learning Models. In: Kaya, M., Alhajj, R. (eds) Influence and Behavior Analysis in Social Networks and Social Media. ASONAM 2018. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02592-2_1

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