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Computational and data intensive processes are increasingly driving collaborative research in science and technology. Large amounts of data are being generated in experiments or simulations and require real-time, or near real-time, analysis and visualisation. The results of these evaluations need to be validated and then published quickly and openly in order to facilitate the overall progress of research...
Social media has become part of people's daily life. Humans are by nature is a social being. Through socializing with people surrounding them and communication between people is the key to the learning process. There is rising awareness that many of youths nowadays spending most of their time on social media communities. Since youth and learning are connected to each other, the characteristics of...
This paper proposes a novel approach to build and deploy learning analytics dashboards in multiple learning environments. Existing learning dashboards are barely portable: once deployed on a learning platform, it requires considerable effort to deploy the dashboard elsewhere. We suggest constructing dashboards from lightweight web applications, namely widgets. Our approach allows to port dashboards...
In classrooms where social media is used as a teaching tool, there have been innovations in the development of personal learning environments over recent years. However, most instructors still typically use social media in the classroom primarily as a platform for developing or sharing information. Taking social media instruction a cautious half-step step further, we report on the use of aggregation...
This study reports data from the website monitoring tools Google Analytics and Sprout Social and an online survey for a child welfare social media campaign on three social media platforms -- a blog, Facebook, and Twitter. This study has two purposes: (1) to identify characteristics of visitors to cause-related social media platforms and (2) to examine factors associated with the campaign' s behavioral...
Social media is increasingly becoming a popular platform for the public to voice their opinion and present them to a huge audience in the web. The year 2011 saw one of the greatest use of social media in the rise and spread of various events, and has been rightly defined as the year of “Social Media Democracy”, with “The Protester” being named as the TIME magazine's person of the year 2011. Due to...
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