The social interaction behaviors of group learning have obtained a lot of attention from researches, and social network analysis (SNA) plays a critical role in exploring collective interactive patterns. In this paper, we investigated the experimental data from the discussion forum of "Discourse Analysis" course in a university learning platform. By calculating learners social characteristics, we explored the relationship between social characteristics and academic achievements, as well as the differences between various achieving learners. The results show that there exist strong positive corr...