@inproceedings{e8cc5c186c9d4233a5ec28710980bf80,
title = "Improving Blended Learning Outcomes Through Academic Social Media",
abstract = "Social media had played an increasingly crucial role in young lives. In this paper, the most popular mobile social media application in China - WeChat has been used to develop an academic social media platform in order to improve students' blended learning outcomes of a SPOC (Small Private Online Course). We divided our workflow into four major parts: (a) pushing course updates directly to students; (b) reminding inactive learners during the self-paced tutorials learning phase; (c) promoting students to participate in discussion forum; (d) providing self-service inquiry for course progress and seating chart. Split-tests between two groups (each group has 219 on-campus students) were conducted in the Fall 2017 semester. We analyzed the behavior statistics and the long-term influence between the controlled group and the experimental group. The results showed that the social tool has a positive impact in the promotion of on-campus students' learning. Our work shows the value of leaving a door open for SPOC researchers, properly identifying participants who are at-risk and developing personalized recommending systems could help in the improving learning outcomes.",
keywords = "Enterprise WeChat, Open edX, Quality education, Social media, SPOC",
author = "Han Wan and Kangxu Liu and Qiaoye Yu and Jun Ding and Xiaopeng Gao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 IEEE.; 42nd IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018 ; Conference date: 23-07-2018 Through 27-07-2018",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1109/COMPSAC.2018.00177",
language = "英语",
series = "Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1006--1015",
editor = "Chung-Horng Lung and Thomas Conte and Ling Liu and Toyokazu Akiyama and Kamrul Hasan and Edmundo Tovar and Hiroki Takakura and William Claycomb and Stelvio Cimato and Ji-Jiang Yang and Zhiyong Zhang and Ahamed, \{Sheikh Iqbal\} and Sorel Reisman and Claudio Demartini and Motonori Nakamura",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2018 IEEE 42nd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, COMPSAC 2018",
address = "美国",
}