Title :
The use of social media tools in ViCaDiS Virtual Campus
Author :
Andone, Diana ; Vasiu, Radu ; Ternauciuc, Andrei ; Dragulescu, Bogdan
Author_Institution :
Regional Distance Educ. Center, Politeh. Univ. of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Abstract :
This paper describes the results of piloting an online — mobile phone environment -ViCaDiS — Virtual Campus for Digital Students, as a co-operation between 6 universities from European Union to develop a common online learning environment enhanced with web 2.0 tools for supporting the online international co-operation at academic level. ViCaDiS facilitates a shift from Institutional Learning Environments towards Personal Learning Environments. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. It presents the evaluation of this new learning environment for digital students.
Keywords :
Blogs; Character generation; Cities and towns; Digital audio broadcasting; Distance learning; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Mobile handsets; Space exploration; Space technology; Digital students; higher education; learning environment; social media; virtual campus;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Cybernetics and Technical Informatics (ICCC-CONTI), 2010 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Timisoara, Romania
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7432-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCYB.2010.5491258
