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A blended community of inquiry approach: the usage of social network as a support for course management system

Ali, G. and Ziaei, S. M. and Anwar, M.B.A. (2012) A blended community of inquiry approach: the usage of social network as a support for course management system. In: 2012 International Conference on Computer And Information Science, ICCIS 2012 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science And Technology Congress, Estcon 2012 - Conference Proceedings. IEEE, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 180-183. ISBN 978-146731938-6

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCISci.2012.6297235

Abstract

This research offers an opportunity to investigate the usage of Social Network Site (SNS) as a support for Course Management Systems (CMS) in Community of Inquiry (Col) model in a blended learning. In order to investigate the largely unexplored benefits of educational SNSs, the researchers used SNS to support CMS for students to evaluate the influence of using non-commercial social network upon the perception of students learning experience in blended learning. Although SNSs provide great Web 2.0 learning applications that can support teaching and learning, the advantages of these websites are oftentimes ignored. There are currently few researches regarding the educational benefits of SNSs in teaching and learning. The researchers used pre-questionnaire and post-questionnaire for assessing the level of students' learning experience before and after using SNS based on the Col model. Through statistical analysis by using t-test analysis, the usage of social network is proven to enhance students' learning experience. And lastly, the guidelines of this research study can help lecturers make a decision to use SNS as a support of CMS for teaching and learning.

Item Type:Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:cognitive presence, Community of Inquiry model, course management system, social network, social presence, teaching presence
Subjects:Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions:Computer Science and Information System
ID Code:33955
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Deposited On:30 Sep 2013 07:41
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