TY - GEN
T1 - Social network application development based on cloud computing for web-based learning
AU - Guo, Zhongyin
AU - Rao, Yanghui
AU - Wang, Fu Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Social network applications and Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) have been widely used in Web-based learning, which have generated large amounts of users and learning materials. Thus, it is useful to manage various learners and share the data efficiently. We here develop a social network application, V-share to facilitate the learner communication and share the learning data based on cloud computing. The V-share has achieved functions of sending and receiving instant voice messages, images and expressions, taking pictures, uploading learning materials instantly, and online voice call. To evaluate the effectiveness of the developed V-share, we compare it to the classical e-learning system on Web-based learning by various metrics. Experimental results based on the usage data of ten learners indicate that V-share could improve the activeness of learners in terms of the averaged browsing time, flow, learners’ satisfaction, and frequency of data sharing.
AB - Social network applications and Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) have been widely used in Web-based learning, which have generated large amounts of users and learning materials. Thus, it is useful to manage various learners and share the data efficiently. We here develop a social network application, V-share to facilitate the learner communication and share the learning data based on cloud computing. The V-share has achieved functions of sending and receiving instant voice messages, images and expressions, taking pictures, uploading learning materials instantly, and online voice call. To evaluate the effectiveness of the developed V-share, we compare it to the classical e-learning system on Web-based learning by various metrics. Experimental results based on the usage data of ten learners indicate that V-share could improve the activeness of learners in terms of the averaged browsing time, flow, learners’ satisfaction, and frequency of data sharing.
KW - Cloud computing
KW - E-learning
KW - Social network software
KW - Software development
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981271714&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-32865-2_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-32865-2_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84981271714
SN - 9783319328645
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 134
EP - 139
BT - Current Developments in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2015 International Workshops, KMEL, IWUM, LA, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Zou, Di
A2 - Gong, Zhiguo
A2 - Chiu, Dickson K.W.
T2 - International Conference on Web Based Learning, ICWL 2015
Y2 - 5 November 2015 through 8 November 2015
ER -