15 articles in this issue
Miltiadis Lytras, Hassan Mathkour
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Hagit Meishar-Tal, Efrat Pieterse
Academic social-networking sites (ASNS) such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate are becoming very popular among academics. These sites allow uploading academic articles, abstracts, and links to published articles; track demand for published articles, and en... see more
Yasemin Gülbahar, Christian Rapp, Selcan Kilis, Anna Sitnikova
While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four countries (Ru... see more
Mariana de Lima, Marta Elena Zorrilla
This study aimed to analyze the student’s behaviour in relation to their degree of commitment, participation, and contribution in a MOOC based on a social learning approach. Interaction data was collected on the learning platform and in social networks, b... see more
Wenke Wang, Yen Chun Jim Wu, Chih-Hung Yuan, Hongxia Xiong, Wan-Ju Liu
The tangible and intangible needs of people with disabilities have been neglected in research agendas over the past decades, particularly in China. Bringing more benefits to people with disabilities and combining information delivery with Internet technol... see more
Gürhan Durak
With its total number of users (around 62 million) throughout the world, it is important to determine the views of academics who use Edmodo (the leading SLN. In this respect in the first part of this two-part research, the purpose was to examine academics... see more
Maria Macià, Iolanda García
Teachers participate in social networking sites to share knowledge and collaborate with other teachers to create education-related content. In this study we selected several communities in order to better understand the networks that these participants es... see more
Miroslava Raspopovic, Svetlana Cvetanovic, Ivana Medan, Danijela Ljubojevic
The aim of this paper is to present the learning and teaching styles using the Social Learning Environment (SLE), which was developed based on the computer supported collaborative learning approach. To avoid burdening learners with multiple platforms and ... see more
Andrés García-Floriano, Ángel Ferreira-Santiago, Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez, Oscar Camacho-Nieto, Mario Aldape-Pérez, Yenny Villuendas-Rey
Social networking potentially offers improved distance learning environments by enabling the exchange of resources between learners. The existence of properly classified content results in an enhanced distance learning experience in which appropriate mate... see more
Sergio Cerón-Figueroa, Itzamá López-Yáñez, Yenny Villuendas-Rey, Oscar Camacho-Nieto, Mario Aldape-Pérez, Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez
The present work describes an original associative model of pattern classification and its application to align different ontologies containing Learning Objects (LOs), which are in turn related to Open and Distance Learning (ODL) educative content. The pr... see more
Wadee S. Alhalabi, Mobeen Alhalabi
The Color Coded Cards system as a possibly effective class management tool is the focus of this research. The Color Coded Cards system involves each student being given a card with a specific color based on his or her behavior. The main objective of the r... see more
Chien-wen Shen, Chin-Jin Kuo, Pham Thi Minh Ly
Although educational practitioners have adopted social media to their online or mobile communities, little attention has been paid to investigate the social media messages related to online or mobile learning. The purpose of this research is to identify s... see more
Higinio Mora, Antonio Ferrández, David Gil, Jesús Peral
Massive Open Online Courses and e-learning represent the future of the teaching-learning processes through the development of Information and Communication Technologies. They are the response to the new education needs of society. However, this future als... see more
Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja, Juan Ignacio Asensio-Pérez, Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez, Miguel Luis Bote-Lorenzo, Carlos Alario-Hoyos
This paper presents We-Share, a social annotation application that enables educators to publish and retrieve information about educational ICT tools. As a distinctive characteristic, We-Share provides educators data about educational tools already availab... see more
Marcelo Careaga Butter, Eduardo Meyer Aguilera, Maria Graciela Badilla Quintana, Laura Jiménez Pérez, Eileen Sepúlveda Valenzuela
The quality of Education in Chile is a controversial topic that has been in the public debate in the last several years. To ensure quality in graduate programs, accreditation is compulsory. The current article presents a model to improve the process of se... see more