Note to self:
I’ve downloaded Swan, K. and Shea, P. (2004) ‘The Development of Virtual Learning Communities’, Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Remember to read it when writing literature review.
Note to self:
I’ve downloaded Swan, K. and Shea, P. (2004) ‘The Development of Virtual Learning Communities’, Learning Together Online: Research on Asynchronous Learning Networks. Remember to read it when writing literature review.
Can’t work out how to link to individual entries in a blog. Anyway, if you go to http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/ and look for heatmaps, you get something about a new piece of software which you can apply to websites to see where people have clicked. The hotspots come out red, the less-clicked turn out blue. There’s an example of the OU library’s homepage heat map.
Can’t actually think what I’d do with it, but it does seem like a useful tool for web page designers, and gives a very clear picture of how people are getting around.
Just to remind myself that, if I’m looking at online relationships, I might want to reread Haythornthwaite on social network theory.