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Phase Transitions In A Model For Social Learning Via The Internet

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  • CLELIA M. BORDOGNA

    (Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany;
    Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y, Aplicadas (INIFTA), CONICET, UNLP, Suc. 4, C.C. 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina;
    IMApEC, Facultad de Ingeniería, UNLP, La Plata, Argentina)

  • EZEQUIEL V. ALBANO

    (Institut fuer Physik, Universitaet Mainz, D-55099 Mainz, Germany;
    Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y, Aplicadas (INIFTA), CONICET, UNLP, Suc. 4, C.C. 16, (1900) La Plata, Argentina)

Abstract

Based on the concepts of educational psychology, sociology and statistical physics, a mathematical model for a new type of social learning process that takes place when individuals interact via the Internet is proposed and studied. The noise of the interaction (misunderstandings, lack of well organized participative activities, etc.) dramatically restricts the number of individuals that can be efficiently in mutual contact and drives phase transitions between "ordered states" such as the achievements of the individuals are satisfactory and "disordered states" with negligible achievements.

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  • Clelia M. Bordogna & Ezequiel V. Albano, 2001. "Phase Transitions In A Model For Social Learning Via The Internet," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(08), pages 1241-1250.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:12:y:2001:i:08:n:s0129183101002498
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183101002498
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    1. Ormazábal, Ignacio & Borotto, Félix A. & Astudillo, Hernán F., 2021. "An agent-based model for teaching–learning processes," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 565(C).

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