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Considered a set of tools and collaborative technologies, Web 2.0 is defined as a new platform for easy access and use, allowing the sharing of information among people and organizations, and where the user has a new role, more collaborative, interactive and important, in the knowledge's sharing. In the literature seems to be some doubt about the term Web 2.0, if represents a new version of the Web,...
The contribution brings latest findings from the survey on social software applications and their satisfaction with them with special focus on their potential in the process of education. The survey was conducted at the University of Hradec Králové, at its two faculties within the framework of a large project “Evaluation of the modern technologies contributing towards forming and development university...
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...
We explain why and how today's trend in computer-supported collaborative work, i.e., so-called social software, should be exploited in systematic business continuity management. We also explain the pitfalls in using social software for business continuity management. As part of the argumentation, we clarify the mutual dependencies of business continuity management and IT continuity management. This...
This paper reports the results of a pilot study conducted on a Cuban Higher Education setting. A classroom of twenty students of the Sciences of Information career at Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas (UCLV1) was inquired during the use of a wiki tool supporting a research workshop in the course of Databases Theory (DBT). The purpose of this study is to test the following hypotheses:...
In recent years, Internet has been glutting with Social Software, like Hotmail, MSN, ICQ, etc. How to effectively apply them into Personal Knowledge Management, which is the process of obtaining, evaluating, arranging, analyzing, revealing and sharing information, is an extremely significant job for educational researchers. Many studies have used one SS in PKM, there is no research on the combination...
Since the emergence of social software, it greatly enhances the internet user's interpersonal communication and social interaction, also affects people's learning and education. Through the content analysis of 438 academic papers published in educational Journals from 2003 to 2008, this article summarizes the characteristics, existing problems of the educational application of various social software,...
Open educational resources (OER) are a direct reaction to knowledge privatization; they foment their exchange to the entire world with the aim of increase the human intellectual capacity.In this document, we describe the commitment of Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), Ecuador, in the promotion of open educational practices and resources and their impact in society and knowledge economy...
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