NDLI: Approaches to Designing Social Media-based Learning Spaces

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Popescu, Elvira
Abstract	Social media tools have been used in educational settings for several years, with good results with regard to student satisfaction, motivation and/or learning gain. In an attempt to exploit this Web 2.0 potential for education, many researchers have started to design social media-based environments for educational use, enhanced with dedicated learning support features. This paper provides a classification and synthesis of the proposed approaches, offering a comparative review of the design solutions. Three main categories are identified, each of which being analyzed and illustrated with representative systems: i) extending general-purpose social media tools with educational support features; ii) building dedicated stand-alone educational social media tools; iii) integrating multiple social media tools in fully-fledged educational platforms.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	8
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450333351
DOI	10.1145/2801081.2801115
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2015-09-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Special-purpose web 2.0 tools Social media in education Social learning environments
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Approaches to Designing Social Media-based Learning Spaces