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Identifying the Optimum Social Site that Could Serve eLearning Purposes: A Preliminary Analysis

Radu Mircea GeorgescuIoana Andreea Bogoslov

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TypologyOrder (exchange)Computer scienceProcess (engineering)Educational technologyKey (cryptography)Social mediaData scienceDomain (software engineering)Task (project management)

description

Nowadays, an increasingly attractive research domain is represented by the integration of eLearning systems with the Social Media tools. However, identifying the proper Social Media platform to serve educational purposes could be an extremely hard task, mainly due to the variations from platform to platform. Thus, the first aim of this article is to identify the optimum typology that could be successfully integrated with eLearning systems. Moving forward, a classification of the top 20 most popular Social Media sites at global level in terms of their main objectives will be required in order to asses a specific typology of each of this. Thereafter, we propose a preliminary model of comparison among the Social Media sites that comply with the identified typology. The process consists in analyzing the main perspectives on these sites, by discussing some established key points and classifying the platforms by their capacity to serve educational purposes.

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2020-12-15
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_2