A social media platform in higher education

Author

Bogdanov, Evgeny ; Limpens, Freddy ; Li, Na ; El Helou, Sandy ; Salzmann, Christophe ; Gillet, Denis

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper reports on the successful use of Graasp, a social media platform, by university students for their collaborative work. Graasp features a number of innovations, such as administrator-free creation of collaborative spaces, a context-aware recommendation and privacy management. In the context of a EU-funded project involving large test beds, we have been able to extend this platform with lightweight tools (widgets) aimed for learning and competence development and to validate its usefulness in a collaborative learning context.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; data privacy; educational institutions; further education; groupware; social networking (online); ubiquitous computing; EU-funded project; Graasp; administrator-free creation; collaborative learning context; collaborative spaces; collaborative work; competence development; context-aware recommendation; higher education; lightweight tools; privacy management; social media platform; university students; widgets; Aerospace electronics; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Context; Educational institutions; Media; Switches; collaborative learning; competence development; context-awareness; education; opensocial; social media; widgets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201105

Filename

6201105