Social features in a domain-specific portal about e-learning

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning Ramón Ovelar Beltrán, Oskar Casquero Oyarzabal, Manuel Benito Gómez Virtual Campus – University of the Basque Country GIEL – ELIT Research Group EDEN 09 – Gdansk

A brief introduction

Definition of a new strategy for Pulsar (http://pulsar.ehu.es), a domain-specific portal devoted to the dissemination of news trends and best practices in the field of e-learning

Description of the procedure followed for moving from an editorial model to a new approach introducing social features

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning EDEN 09 – Gdansk

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning Raise awareness of technologies affordances Build a collection of relevant resources A gateway to information about e-learning EDEN 09 – Gdansk

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning All these services are giving shape to new mechanisms for filtering and selecting the information we consume where personal networks and community play an important role EDEN 09 – Gdansk

WEB 2.0, API MICROCONTENT, SYNDICATION, BARRIERS FOR PARTICIPATION ARE LOWERING A NEW ATTITUDE: DIGITAL NATIVES SOCIAL NETWORKS EMERGE IN THE WEB ARENA ONLINE IDENTITY COMMUNITY: A SOCIAL GATEKEEPER SOCIAL NETWORKS BLOGS, WIKIS, BROADBAND… SOCIAL MEDIA USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) WEB 2.0 SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL MEDIA UGC TRANSFORMING THEMATIC PORTALS INTO SOCIAL INFORMATION HUBS A CLOUD OF WEB SERVICES TOOLS THAT USERS SHOULD FIND IN A 2.0 PORTAL

RSS FEEDS

AGGREGATION

APIs

PROFILES

OPEN SOCIAL

TAGS

RATINGS

COMMENTS

¿MODERATION?

LIFESTREAM

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning Getting the community into the process ¿Why users would contribute? EDEN 09 – Gdansk

Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning Users need to feel it as useful for themselves, but also that making a contribution is worth it, because they are effectively helping their colleagues. EDEN 09 – Gdansk

User-generated content and institutional content will be side by side

Mixed authentication system that can be linked to an institutional authentication systems (LDAP) but offers non-university users the possibility to participate

Two possibilities for users’ contributions: direct contributions (like a recommended link with a description) and advanced aggregator . These contributions will be tagged by authors (folksonomy)

A rating system for content and other popularity rankings

Affordances for sharing and keeping content in external platforms , by shortcut to social media sites, mail

A community board displaying users’ contributions, where different tabs will enable users to check them by popularity, time of submission, tags…

A profile displaying personal information about users but also their last contributions, in a set of blocks: internal contributions, external contributions, comments…

A social network enabling to set relations with other users, that will also be displayed in their profiles. A friends’ feed is created with the contributions of these users and will be displayed in a tab included in users' profile