T-Buddy: Teach Buddy, a Socializing Medium to Enhance Learning

摘要

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.