| dc.description.abstract | “Social Learning“ is one of the most nature way for people to learn. Through observation, imitation of others’ behaviors and actual activity participation and interaction with other individuals, people construct cognition, experience and memory in the series of social process, and, finally, all of them are going to be their own knowledge. In the last decade, E-learning became prosperous and brilliant with the help of Internet technologies. However, the current E-learning system mainly plays a role of learning assistance such as providing learning content or learning information, and it seldom provides channels or platforms in the learning environment for discussion and interaction. The current E-learning system can’t fully support the social learning environment. In recent years, social network sites became widespread and everyone interacted and communicated with others on the websites almost every day. This made social network sites become one of the necessary elements of nowadays people, and some other social-related researches started to study the impact brought by social networks, so did E-learning and social learning. Many researches were wondering what kinds of new features or innovations that social networks and social network sites could make up a deficiency of social learning support.
In recent years, “Open Course Ware” raised a storm in the E-learning research field. User can receive the higher education courses from the world-famous universities in the worldwide to have self-learning by simply registering an account on the websites. As traditional E-learning system breaking the time and space limitation, Open Course Ware also breaks the limitation of classroom and school. This makes the Online School or Online University become a new trend in the education, and some famous universities was even willing to provide credit certification for the Open Course Ware. However, the pure online and self-learning learning environment is working without the instruction of teacher, it was an important issue that how students receive suitable learning content in this kind of learning environment; Also, how the learning society formed in this environment can help student in the learning activities and the system design of interaction learning mechanism of social learning and peer learning are another important issue.
In our research, we integrate the E-learning system and the existing social network sites, using the power of social networks to provide an Open Course Ware environment. Moreover, we analyze the learning portfolio in the E-learning system with the social relationship acquiring from social network sites, to do the social learning analysis and provide a social learning recommendation mechanism, which can help student to choose suitable course according to their learning situation, and have interaction and discussion with other students or friends. | en_US |