Predicting newcomer integration in online learning communities: Automated dialog assessment in blogger communities

Using online learning communities (OLCs) from the Internet as informal learning environments raises the question how likely these communities will integrate learners as new members, i.e., how integrative these OLCs will be. Such prediction is the purpose of the current study. To achieve this, an identification method of the central, intermediate, and peripheral OLC layers is proposed. Based on the CSCL approaches of voices interanimation and...