Small K-Teams Recommendation in Social Learning Networks

A tool for efficient team formation based on students´ proficiency and their communication in social networks is demonstrated. An experiment was conducted using two separate group discovering mechanisms with a pool of 68 students in two subjects. The proposed tool was used to discover groups in the experimental group with 31 students who followed the subject Object Oriented Analysis and Design and the grouping mechanism available in Moodle was used in the control group of 37 students who followed the subject Project Management during four weeks in the Spring semester of the 2013/ 2014 academic year. The study was carried out in accordance with a quasi-experimental research with a pretest and a post test design. The result indicates that small grouping based on the algorithm has better outcome.