A Novel O2O Teaching Model Using Mobile Social Network APP to Combine Online and Offline Teaching

摘要

The smartphone is widely used in college campus at present, almost every college student like to use their smartphone to access the popular mobile social network APP such as WeChat, mobile QQ. The notion of O2O was proposed by Alex Rampel in 2010, it gets much attention of education circles immediately after it was proposed, there are many researchers study the O2O model, and want to use this model into the existing teaching methods. To take the advantages of the existing O2O teaching model in some researches, we propose a novel O2O teaching model based on a mobile social network APP, and apply this model into the "Android APP Development" course in our university. The application of this O2O teaching model show it can enhance their learning interest of students considerably, make students to use their spare time effectively, and increasing their friendship strongly.