A tool for evaluating social media enhanced learning environments

Author

Silius, Kirsi ; Tervakari, Anne-Maritta ; Pirttila, Olli ; Paukkeri, Jukka ; Makela, Teemu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 April 2014

Firstpage

152

Lastpage

157

Abstract

The evaluation tool WeSQu¹ was developed to help evaluators pay attention to critical quality factors of social media enhanced learning environment and provide guidelines to support implementation of high-quality educational web services. The WeSQu (earlier ARVO) tool is a web based evaluation tool that was developed in 2003 (updated 2008 and 2013) at Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory (IISLab), Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in cooperation with the Finnish Virtual University (FVU) to help the improvement of web based learning. In 2013 hypermedia experts at IISLab evaluated the renewed WeSQu tool in order to find out 1. if the background theories behind the original evaluation questions and the questions themselves are still relevant, and 2. if the improved functionalities and new added functionalities can support reliable evaluation.

Keywords

Q-factor; Web services; computer aided instruction; social networking (online); software tools; FVU; Finnish Virtual University; IISLab; Intelligent Information Systems Laboratory; TUT; Tampere University of Technology; WeSQu¹ evaluation tool; Web based learning; critical quality factors; high-quality educational Web services; hypermedia experts; social media enhanced learning environment evaluation; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Media; Q-factor; Reliability; Web services; evaluation tools; learning environment; quality evaluation; social media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826082

Filename

6826082