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This paper describes a case study conducted in a post-graduation course that employed social software to distribute its learning environment and to promote a different training experiment to attending students, mostly in-service teachers. It suggests an approach to teacher training that resorts to distributed knowledge-based systems and the communication tools they provide as a means to create personal...
Software projects are frequently used to provide software engineering students with an understanding of the complexities of real-world software development. Free and Open Source Software projects provide a unique opportunity for student learning as projects are open and accessible and students are able to interact with an established professional community. However, many faculty members have little...
With the constantly advance of IT in education, the interactive learning based on social software carries an important influence on personalized learning, independent learning and collaborative learning. Constructivist learning theory has laid a theoretical foundation for the interactive learning based on social software. The paper discusses the meanings, characteristics, classifications on the social...
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Forums on the Web are increasingly spammed by miscreants in order to attract visitors to their (often malicious) websites. In this paper, we study the prevalence of forum spamming and find that Internet users are at a high risk of encountering forums with spam links posted on them. To mitigate the problem, we examine the characteristics of 286 days of forum spam posted at a research blog and develop...
Word processing was one of the earliest uses for small workstations, but we quickly learned that desktop computers were far more than e-typewriters. Similarly, social media offers tools that could significantly improve our effectiveness at managing the avalanche of information and decisions associated with space flight projects. However, “could” does not necessarily equal “should”. We must wield two-edged...
In many organizations, social software is well established and no longer just a trend topic, which means that benefits are expected. As with any other type of information systems (IS), assessing social software success is an important and challenging task for both practitioners and researchers. This motivated us to present a conceptual model for measuring social software success. This model is based...
In this paper we explore the idea that ratings systems, common across successful e-commerce sites, can better engage individuals in online learning networks. To test this we implement a ratings system as a mechanism for influencing social interaction in our university's online learning community (OLC). Our research measures the impact this system had on five graduate courses over the course of two...
This paper describes the pervasive game unexceptional.net. Unexceptional.net is a unique pervasive game that is story-driven where the story evolves through multiple media channels interacting with the player. The game interacts with the user on a cellphone and a PC, and the game provides unique gaming experience by introducing gameplay elements through comics, web hacks, Blogs, a 3D-client, a database...
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