Exploring Learning Effectiveness through Windows Live Social Network for Elementary School

Along with the development of information technology, innovative digital learning is an inevitable trend of future education. Taiwan has been continuously renovating and refining its education system so that students can obtain quality education and achieve effective learning in knowledge, skills, and attitudes. the purposes of this research are twofold: first, this study aims to create a reliable and valid questionnaire for "the Learning Effect of Windows Live Social Network Integrated into Information Instruction in Elementary Schools" through literature review, expert meetings, item analyses, and factor analyses, second, adopting the research method of "experiment group vs. control group," this study explores the effectiveness of using Windows Live social network as a supplementary teaching platform for students in IT courses. the subjects are four classes of 6th-grade students in one elementary school in Taiwan, among them, two classes were the experiment group, while the other two, the control group. This study also investigates how differences on gender, amount of time spent online, and number of times responding to articles affect students\´ achievements in IT course with different learning methods.