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Learning is a social behavior. The important issue to design a learning management system is how to effectively use the technologies to improve the collaborative learning. Due to the drawbacks of Facebook, the authors proposed a new social networking service, educoco, for K-12 education in Taiwan. The characteristics of teachers are specially strengthened in educoco, and the learning activity is project-based. Now, there are more than 10000 users in Taiwan.
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This work was supported by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under contact number MOST 103-2632-E-127-001.
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Tseng, SP., Chen, TC. (2014). educoco: A Mobile Social Learning Platform for Project-Based Learning and Collaboration. In: Cao, Y., Väljataga, T., Tang, J., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_13
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