Twitter News in Education Platform for Collaborative Learning

Yongsung Kim, Byeongjin Na, Jinwoong Park, Seungmin Rho, Eenjun Hwang

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    4 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    Traditional NIE (Newspaper in Education), which is the study of how to utilize any educational resources in the newspaper in the classroom, has been studied for a long time. However, it has a one-way interaction characteristic and available media are limited. In addition, it has difficulty capturing the latest hot issues or recognizing any public opinions. In this paper, we propose a platform called TNIE (Twitter News in Education) that utilizes Twitter news in education. TNIE has many advantages compared to traditional NIE: (i) it provides a classification of the latest news on various topics to the learners, (ii) classified news content can be browsed effectively via a hierarchical visualization scheme, and (iii) effective discussion or debate groups can be easily made from the learners based on their selection of the news. To evaluate the performance of our scheme, we implemented a prototype system and performed several experiments. We also had volunteers use our prototype system and evaluate its main functions. We report some of these evaluation results.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2016 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2016 - Proceedings
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    ISBN (Electronic)9781467386852
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016 Apr 19
    Event3rd International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2016 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
    Duration: 2016 Feb 152016 Feb 17

    Publication series

    Name2016 International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2016 - Proceedings

    Other

    Other3rd International Conference on Platform Technology and Service, PlatCon 2016
    Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
    CityJeju
    Period16/2/1516/2/17

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2016 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Collaborative learning
    • E-learning
    • Education using twitter
    • Newspaper in education
    • Social learning

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Information Systems

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