Title :
Students´ participation in a social media enhanced learning environment
Author :
Tervakari, Anne ; Silius, K. ; Kailanto, Meri
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
Abstract :
In this article, we introduce the results of a study concerning visualizations of students´ participation and activity in TUT Circle, a social media enhanced web service for learning, networking, and communication. Well-designed visualizations can provide useful information for teachers to improve pedagogical practices and the quality of online courses. Visualization enables students to monitor their own activity levels and performance processes, and make strategic adjustments to improve them.
Keywords :
Web services; computer aided instruction; data visualisation; teaching; TUT Circle; Tampere University of Technology; online courses; social media enhanced Web service; social media enhanced learning environment; student participation visualizations; Boolean functions; Conferences; Data structures; Engineering education; SNA; learning analytics; participation; social network services; visualizations;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6111-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2165-9559
DOI :
10.1109/EduCon.2013.6530209
