Abstract:In this paper the authors present a range of arguments in favour of integrating social software tools within e-learning system and to emphasize the advantages of socialization forms on students' educa...In this paper the authors present a range of arguments in favour of integrating social software tools within e-learning system and to emphasize the advantages of socialization forms on students' education. Social software includes a wide range of different technologies, such as: social networking sites, weblogs, wikis, RSS feeds and social bookmarking. It's based on Web 2.0, a term associated with web applications that allows interactive information sharing, interoperability, user-centred design. The rigorous academic style of learning systems is necessary to be completed with social software tools to have a better impact on the student. Even wikis, social sites and blogs have a lot of fans (students and teachers) in higher education, it seems they have not been used to their full potential for e-learning. As educators, we would like to be less boring, much more flexible and open and to have a better communication with our students. For this purpose, we tried to include the social software technologies in our courses, to achieve a deeper implication of the students in learning activities, to share knowledge, ideas and thoughts. In respect of truth, it would be very misleading to define the social software as the best practice used in higher education, but we insist on ideas to include its tools in learning systems.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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