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Table 2 Coding scheme of wayfinding behaviors

From: A personal social knowledge network (PSKN) facilitates learners’ wayfinding and its differences in behavior patterns between high and low performers in connectivist learning

Dimensions

Log behavior

Code

Explanation

Creating nodes

Create a learning community

Create knowledge nodes

Create knowledge bases

CC

Learners create a community

Learners create a CU

Learners create a course

CK

CB

Finding nodes

Find knowledge nodes and plan to learn

Find knowledge bases and plan to learn

FK

Orient CU created by others and add to personal schedule

Orient course created by others and add to personal schedule

FB

Forming a cognitive map

Establish relationships between nodes or concepts of CU

Establish relationships between nodes or concepts of course knowledge bases

EK

Edit the topic, structure, and essential information of the CU

Edit the topic, structure, and essential information of course knowledge bases

EB

Connecting nodes

Connect the learning community

Connect knowledge nodes

Connect knowledge bases

JC

Join a community created by others

Access a CU created by others

Access a course created by others

LK

LB

Evaluating and filtering information

Evaluate and filter information of knowledge nodes

Evaluate and filter information of knowledge bases

RK

Evaluate and score a CU created by others

Evaluate and score a course created by others

RB

  1. CU = course unit (knowledge node in the PSKN)