Title :
Survey and analysis of the use of social software in education
Author :
Haiyan, Zhang ; Huanjing, Wang
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. & Commun. Coll., Qufu Normal Univ., Shan Dong, China
Abstract :
Since the emergence of social software, it greatly enhances the internet user´s interpersonal communication and social interaction, also affects people´s learning and education. Through the content analysis of 438 academic papers published in educational Journals from 2003 to 2008, this article summarizes the characteristics, existing problems of the educational application of various social software, and give some suggestion of it´s future development.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; education; Internet users interpersonal communication; educational journals; social interaction; social software; Application software; Collaborative software; Electronic mail; IP networks; Information analysis; Information services; Internet; Publishing; Social network services; Web sites; Social software; content analysis; teacher development;
Conference_Titel :
E-Health Networking, Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (EDT), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenzhen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5514-0
DOI :
10.1109/EDT.2010.5496478
