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Social network applications and Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) have been widely used in Web-based learning, which have generated large amounts of users and learning materials. Thus, it is useful to manage various learners and share the data efficiently. We here develop a social network application, V-share to facilitate the learner communication and share the learning data based on cloud computing. The V-share has achieved functions of sending and receiving instant voice messages, images and expressions, taking pictures, uploading learning materials instantly, and online voice call. To evaluate the effectiveness of the developed V-share, we compare it to the classical e-learning system on Web-based learning by various metrics. Experimental results based on the usage data of ten learners indicate that V-share could improve the activeness of learners in terms of the averaged browsing time, flow, learners’ satisfaction, and frequency of data sharing.
Y. Rao—The research work described in this article has been substantially supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Project Number: 46000-31610009).
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The research described in this paper has been supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (UGC/FDS11/E06/14).
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Guo, Z., Rao, Y., Wang, F.L. (2016). Social Network Application Development Based on Cloud Computing for Web-based Learning. In: Gong, Z., Chiu, D., Zou, D. (eds) Current Developments in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9584. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32865-2_15
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