T-Buddy: Teach Buddy, a socializing medium to enhance learning

Autor: Aura Ganz, Vivek Varadarajan
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: 2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference.
DOI: 10.1109/fie.2009.5350876
Popis: We have developed and deployed T-Buddy system which is a social networking platform that significantly enhances the students' comprehension of the class material by promoting collaborative learning outside the classroom setting. T-Buddy system includes an online forum for posting comments on specific research topics posted by the students as well as a socializing medium that allows students to add friends, form communities, send messages, etc. T-Buddy also includes a novel Peer-To-Peer (P2P) credit system. The students reported that the system made learning “more fun and engaging” and was instrumental in facilitating better comprehension of the course material.
Databáze: OpenAIRE