Using Experiment on Social Learning Environment Based on an Open Source Social Platform

摘要

As we know, social platform has been very popular for many years, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and so on. User on social platform may retrieve lots of information (breaking news, comments, sharing article...). Those information lead user to learn as their new knowledge, it's one kind of social learning. Otherwise, the popularity of portable devices (cell phone, Tablet) also help user to access internet and social platform in anytime and anywhere, user can get knowledge from social platform. In this paper, we conduct an experiment to compare the students learning on Elgg social platform on portable devices and the students learning in traditional methods. The results show us the students learning with social learning environment have better learning efficiency.