Group Modeling in Social Learning Environments

Theoretical Background

In this section, we describe social learning theories to determine the importance of students' interaction while learning, with a brief overview of Web 2.0 tools as the online environment for socializing. Such interactions are not recognized in individual learning domain, while group learning and problem solving exists in traditional learning and teaching (Bersin, 2004). Students, however, gain different experiences and accomplish social interactions through group work and collaboration. As group members share skills and knowledge, so the whole group as one entity has more skills and knowledge than each individual, showing synergy effects. We also present subset of definitions selected from general graph theory which were used in this research.