• DocumentCode
    2817528
  • Title

    Instant Messaging Tool Based Online Question-and-Answer System: An Effort for a New Group Learning Environment

  • Author

    Gu, Rui ; Zhang, Shengwen ; He, Jiantong

  • Author_Institution
    Transp. Manage. Coll., Dalian Maritime Univ., Dalian, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    11-13 Dec. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Instant messenger is popularly used by students in colleges. But nearly no instant messaging software is designed specifically to facilitate the education needs. An instant messenger named IQU is introduced in this paper. The background techniques, system structure, implementation and related issues are discussed. Furthermore, the potent usage and influence of instant messaging on online education are discussed.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer aided instruction; electronic messaging; groupware; IQU; education needs; group learning environment; instant messaging tool; online education; online question-and-answer system; Educational institutions; Environmental management; Instruments; Social network services; Software design; Software tools; Statistics; Transportation; Videoconference; Web services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2009. CiSE 2009. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Wuhan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4507-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4507-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CISE.2009.5363373
  • Filename
    5363373