scholarly journals Muet Blogging: An Integral Platform for Students Projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 1293-1298
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Ranking Algorithm ◽  
Specific Time ◽  
User Testing ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Work First

Since the evolution of web 2.0 technologies, the use of weblogs has grown vastly. Weblog is a platform for discussion and awareness about various subjects. It has also promoted use of blogs in other IT sectors like educational blogs, fashion blogs, IT technology blogs, food recipe blogs, microblogs and other personalized blogs. The ratings of users on each post in a blog are significant. Researchers have suggested that using blogs in education are also vital as it instills awareness in the students and develops an interaction amongst them. Blogs are a subset of group-work as it diffuses awareness about different fields and technologies across the interested demographic. As students feel difficulty to go through all the previous projects and also find it difficult to select a particular domain for their final year projects. This research is the solution of above defined problem. In this research work, first a weblog for maintaining the final year B.E projects of MUET students is developed. This work embodies the feature of the post’s ranking at specific time with the help of a ranking algorithm that is applied on posts by MUET students. This algorithm is termed as WCA (Word CountAlgorithm) and uses the comments of users as its source. Developed ranking algorithm provide users particular information in several particular dimensions. The developed searching filters assists the weblog to announce a particular post as highest comments containing posts, 1 week older posts, 1 hour older posts, and all the older posts.Automated testing and user testing also proves the usefulness of the developed MUET blog

scholarly journals Social Media And Networking Technologies: An Analysis Of Collaborative Work And Team Communication

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ephraim A. Okoro ◽  
Angela Hausman ◽  
Melvin C. Washington
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Quality Instruction ◽  
Networking Technologies

Digital communication increases students learning outcomes in higher education. Web 2.0 technologies encourages students active engagement, collaboration, and participation in class activities, facilitates group work, and encourages information sharing among students. Familiarity with organizational use and sharing in social networks aids students who are expected to be facile in these technologies upon graduation (Benson, Filippaios, and Morgan, 2010). Faculty members become coaches, monitoring and providing feedback to students rather than directing activities. While Web 2.0 technologies, including social networks, may act as a distraction in a teaching environment, our findings suggest that effective social networking in learning environments sustain quality instruction and skills-development in business education.

Web 2.0 Technology Use by Students in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 278-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoda K. Gitonga ◽  
Catherine G. Murungi
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Team Cooperation ◽  
Online Discussion Forums ◽  
Web 2.0 Technology

Web 2.0 technologies are technologies on the Internet such as blogs, wikis, and online forums that allow people to create, share, collaborate, and communicate their ideas. Blogs are known to enhance team cooperation and foster a learning community within the class. Wikis have been used to promote group work. Online discussion forums assist with problem-based learning. Facebook/Twitter have the potential to support social learning through community networking services such as wall pasting, chatting, content-sharing, and tagging. Despite the enormous potential and apparent cost effectiveness of new learning media for facilitating social-networked learning, problem-based learning, and promoting group work, its application by institutions of higher learning in developing African countries is low. The purpose of the study was to investigate the use of Web 2.0 technologies in teaching and learning in Kenyan universities. The researchers used surveys to collect data for this study. The findings reveal that the use of Web 2.0 technologies by students in Kenyan universities was quite low. Finally, other implications need to be explored in the context of the study, including the learners and the Web 2.0 technology resources available.

scholarly journals Collaborative Learning for the Net Generation

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-24
Author(s):  
S. Roodt ◽  
C. de Villiers ◽  
P. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Net Generation ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Learning And Teaching

Educating learners is a challenging task for academics. Many challenges arise because of the unique learning preferences of today’s learners, known as the Net Generation, who have grown up with technology. For academic communities, these students provide an opportunity for Faculties to adapt and enhance the learning process. This paper explores the implementation of Web 2.0 technologies at an undergraduate level for an introductory business-driven technology course. These Web 2.0 technologies were selected specifically for their collaborative nature and ability to support large numbers of students. This paper summarises the experiences of undergraduate students in the context of group work and social networking within a computer supported collaborative learning environment. The findings are based on a questionnaire, completed by 890 first year students of their experiences. Through this questionnaire, the authors determine whether the students found the introduction of new learning and teaching tools to be effective. The findings of this paper indicate that group work can be significantly enhanced through the use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networks.

Realism 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 663-679
Author(s):  
Augusta Rohrbach
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

This chapter looks to the future of teaching realism with Web 2.0 technologies. After discussing the ways in which technologies of data modeling can reveal patterns for interpretation, the chapter examines how these technologies can update the social-reform agenda of realism as exemplified by William Dean Howells’s attempted intervention into the Haymarket Riot in 1886. The advent of Web 2.0 techologies offers students a way to harness the genre’s sense of social purpose to knowledge-sharing mechanisms to create a vehicle for political consciousness-raising in real time. The result is “Realism 2.0,” a realism that enables readers to engage in their world, which is less text-centric than it was for previous writers.

Personal Learning Environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian H. D. Fiedler ◽  
Terje Väljataga
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Instrumentation ◽  
Personal Learning Environments

This paper reviews and critiques how the notion of PLEs has been conceptualised and discussed in literature so far. It interprets the variability of its interpretations and conceptualisations as the expression of a fundamental contradiction between patterns of activity and digital instrumentation in formal education on one hand, and individual experimentation and experience within the digital realm on the other. It is suggested to place this contradiction in the larger socio-historic context of an ongoing media transformation. Thus, the paper argues against the prevalent tendency to base the conceptualisation of PLEs almost exclusively on Web 2.0 technologies that are currently available or emerging, while underlying patterns of control and responsibility often remain untouched. Instead, it proposes to scrutinise these patterns and to focus educational efforts on supporting adult learners to model their learning activities and potential (personal learning) environments while exploring the digital realm.

Towards Library 2.0: The Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies in Public Libraries

Libri ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko ◽  
Reijo Savolainen
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies

Application of the Web 2.0 Technologies Podcast and Vidcast for Formation and Development of Listening Comprehension Skill in an Extended Englishtraining Course in Eighth Grade

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumen Hristov
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Specific Method ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Comprehension Skill ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Web

Low levels of listening comprehension skills in English is observed in many students. As a specific method, which can both cover mobile technologies and combine them with training, is the application of technology for podcasting and vidcasting/vodkasting. Podcasts and podcasts can provide authentic, up-to-date and easily accessible material, making them extremely useful when learning foreign languages. Their application makes learning freer and independent by introducing more interesting elements; gives greater freedom and independence to participants in the lesson. Students can listen to the material on the bus or while going to the gym.

The Impact of Web 2.0 Technologies on the Learning Experience of Students in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afaf Mubarak Bugawa ◽  
Andri Mirzal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Traditional Classrooms ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how the use of Web 2.0 technologies in the field of learning is on the rise. By their nature, Web 2.0 technologies increase the interactivity between users where interactivity is considered to be a key to success in traditional classrooms. This article reviews recent studies in the field of Web 2.0 technologies for learning and their impacts on the learning experiences and investigates relationship between Web 2.0 technologies and pedagogy in higher education on student learning. Key findings about the impacts of using social networks like Facebook, Twitter, blogs and wikis on learning experiences are also discussed. Web 2.0 technologies' characteristics and the rationale of Web 2.0 technologies in learning will also be explored.

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