A Notification Manager to support collaborative learning in LMS Moodle

Author

Echeverria, Leovy ; Cobos, Ruth ; Morales, Mario

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 April 2014

Firstpage

492

Lastpage

498

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to present an awareness information service called Notification Manager. The implementation of the manager is embedded into the Learning Management System Moodle. The aim of the Notification Manager is to support student-student interactions in collaborative learning tasks performed by students and instructors into the system. To test the implemented manager, an experimentation was carried out with students from the Simulation course at the Faculty of Informatics Engineering at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, UPB-Montería (Colombia) in the second semester of 2013.

Keywords

educational courses; educational institutions; groupware; information services; learning management systems; Colombia; Faculty of Informatics Engineering; LMS Moodle; UPB-Monteria; Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana; awareness information service; learning management system; notification manager; student-student interactions; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Cultural differences; Engineering education; Fellows; Least squares approximations; Team working; Collaborative Learning; Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL); Moodle; Notification Manager;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826137

Filename

6826137