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Towards the Extension of a LMS with Social Media Services

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Antonio Garmendía,

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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - Volume 8091

Pages 67 - 72

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40840-3_11

Published: 22 September 2013 Publication History

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The Social Media is a term used to define a wide range of network tools or technologies, which deal with the social aspects of internet as a channel of communication, collaboration and creative expression. This type of environments has been used for educational practices in different areas, competing sometimes with e-learning institutional environments, such as the Learning Management Systems LMS.

This paper proposes the extension of a specific LMS, Moodle, through Social Media services. This plugin provide the interaction and collaboration of all users. The main aim of the proposed approach is to enrich the existing educational process provided by this LMS.

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Towards the Extension of a LMS with Social Media Services
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
  2. Enterprise computing

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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - Volume 8091

September 2013

234 pages

ISBN:9783642408397

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Yuhua Luo
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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Published: 22 September 2013

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