The development of an educational social network to support integrated-learning in universities

Tóm tắt

Social Networks (SNs) have been successfully used in education, particularly in social knowledge training. However, using universal SNs, such as Facebook or Twitter, to deliver courses, has limited the effect of social training due to the lack of support from educational services. Developing an educational SN can provide a better support for education in a university. This paper describes the development of an educational SN that integrates social features of SNs with academic features of educational training. The developed educational SN has shown certain advantages when comparing the deployment on universal SNs or the usage of Learning Management Systems.