Title :
Using social software to improve learning performance of deaf university learner
Author :
Lihua, Sheng ; Jiacheng, Xu
Author_Institution :
Educ. Technol. Dept., Capital Normal Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
More and more educators begin to pay attention to social software because of its educational value. In this paper the author use Questionnaire to obtain information about the attitude to social software of 40 deaf learners, what social software they have, what to do they use social software. Then introduced the educational value of social software to deaf university learners, at the end, give some advice on how to use social software to improve learning performance of deaf learners.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; handicapped aids; deaf university learner; educational value; social software; Collaborative software; Deafness; IP networks; Information services; Internet; Knowledge management; Social network services; Software performance; Software tools; Web sites; deaf university learner; learning performance; social software;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5263-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5265-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIME.2010.5478205