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Social networking sites are great tools for aggregating and bringing people together, in the sense they offer various forms of interaction. This article defends the idea that social networking sites have great potential to expand education beyond the classrooms. In this article, we discuss the main advantages and difficulties of using SNS for educational purposes, and then we propose an architecture...
The traditional teaching methods ofthe Learning Management Systems (or LMS) are rigid in nature and impose limitations on the teaching process. By having a closed pattern, these tools end up hurting the student, for preventing it from interacting with anyone who shares the same interests as him. As a result, the concepts ofcommunity, relationship and interaction between users are required to overcome...
Collaboration between people has the communication as element key. However this interaction needs a process of searching for collaborators, as well as the determination of what communication channel can be used by the participants, and these are the essential steps of a collaboration. These two steps can be increased when they are embedded in a ubiquitous computing scenario. In this kind of scenario,...
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