A Study On The Social Interaction Of Learning Community In Network Learning Community

With the development and popularization of the computer network, along withideas of lifelong education develop deeply, network learning become a way ofenhancing the current self, more and more people are using web tools to communicatein the cyberspace, and it becomes more and more popular,the production of this kindof virtual social interaction promotes the conformation of a learning communitywhich based on the individual interest or specialized needs for a subject, and theonline learning community with a certain learning content is rising rapidly in thisatmosphere, and it has also become one of the important informal learning place forpeople to learn, and because people have to communicate with others when they arelearning, the virtual social interaction become the fundamental presence of an onlinelearning community, and it is the key elements to promote its development andexpansion, so the social interaction in online learning communities has also become ahot issue in the field of educational technology and distance education at home andabroad.In the online learning community, learners use network interactive platform forthe knowledge disseminating, information sharing and emotional communication,while improving learning outcomes. According to the classification of networklearning communities by Dr. Gan Yongcheng, we know that the Online LearningCommunity MOOC college which we choose in this study belongs to informaleducation, because of the social network analysis method provides a new idea for thestudy of the interaction between learning community of online learning community,the paper will adopt " Social Psychology " course forum of the community as studyobject, use social network analysis as the main research methods, anylze the socialnetwork of the course discussion area, and we can know the interactive structure,thecentricity and the density of the social network and three samples subjectrespectively, such as to find out various community members ’ position and role inthe interactive network. In this paper, I will analyze through content analysis method to get three themes of the course forum’s content, according to the interactive degreeof each member to participate in, the online learning community members will bedivided into active participants, the general participants, passive participants andlonely participants, and to analyze the contribution of active participants incommunity development. At the same time reveal the status of social interaction inthe course forum, find the problems of social interaction,and on the base of somerelated theories,to find the pathways and strategies to improve the online learningcommunity’s social interaction and to solve the problem of insufficient interaction inthe network learning,promote the development of online learning community.