The use of social media tools in ViCaDiS Virtual Campus

Author

Andone, Diana ; Vasiu, Radu ; Ternauciuc, Andrei ; Dragulescu, Bogdan

Author_Institution

Regional Distance Educ. Center, Politeh. Univ. of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2010

fDate

27-29 May 2010

Firstpage

305

Lastpage

310

Abstract

This paper describes the results of piloting an online — mobile phone environment -ViCaDiS — Virtual Campus for Digital Students, as a co-operation between 6 universities from European Union to develop a common online learning environment enhanced with web 2.0 tools for supporting the online international co-operation at academic level. ViCaDiS facilitates a shift from Institutional Learning Environments towards Personal Learning Environments. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. It presents the evaluation of this new learning environment for digital students.

Keywords

Blogs; Character generation; Cities and towns; Digital audio broadcasting; Distance learning; Educational technology; Electronic learning; Mobile handsets; Space exploration; Space technology; Digital students; higher education; learning environment; social media; virtual campus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Cybernetics and Technical Informatics (ICCC-CONTI), 2010 International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Timisoara, Romania

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7432-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCYB.2010.5491258

Filename

5491258