A pilot study in using web 2.0 to aid academic writing skills

Author

Tulaboev, Azamjon ; Oxley, Alan

Author_Institution

Comput. & Inf. Sci. Dept., Univ. Teknol. PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

50

Abstract

Today a wide range of Web 2.0 applications (such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, RSS, Podcasts and Wikis) are giving new challenges and opportunities in teaching and learning. The work described here concerns a pilot study to investigate the acceptability and effectiveness of using web 2.0 as an aid to learning. The work focuses on a university course on academic writing skills. The role of Web 2.0 applications are studied in building informal classes for traditional students and in adopting Web 2.0 practices by educators responsible for delivering existing courses. The extension of the UTAUT model is used as a research framework to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of web 2.0 applications.

Keywords

Internet; courseware; educational institutions; teaching; UTAUT model; Web 2.0; academic writing skill; teaching; university course; Bismuth; Correlation; Education; Gold; Internet; Silicon; Social network services; Experiential Pedagogy; Social Networks; Teaching and Learning; UTUAT model; Web 2.0 tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Open Systems (ICOS), 2010 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9193-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOS.2010.5720062

Filename

5720062