E-Portal and Social Learning

1. E-Portal and Social Learning Abdul Hadi Farah Farooq MaazShamimMalikAsqafSafdar MudassarShahid

2. How? SC tools are an easy way for educators to generate content and make learning materials available to students • Blog • Podcasts – audio, video • Live chat, group chat • Whiteboard sharing • Group discussions

3. Generation and supply of learning material • Blogs, e.g., used to stay up to date for news and feedback, experiences regarding studies to other students, as well as for supplying learning materials and links to further resources; give insight to students on shared information. • Podcasts are most frequently used to provide students with lecture recordings and additional audio material. • Podcasts are attractive to learners because they allow learning at one's own pace, listening to the audio or video content as many times as necessary, even using commuting time to learn

4. Social tagging • assign tags to each resource resulting in a user directed method of classifying the information. • It will allows users to organize and share their information and online resources on the portal. • It will enables the content management for the online communityas well as for individual person.

5. Social navigation and bookmark • You will be able to navigate, interact with others and see the traces of information online. • You can find and share links, bookmark your resources online and share it with others the references. This will be done using words that are already tagged to help classify information easily and make search easy.

6. Social networking • The best platform for all students to access a single platform to share , collaborate and get information regarding reports, presentations, case studies, articles that they want to discuss and present. • E-learning is everything but now it is in an interactive way. Group discussions, chats, forums will help in social networking between students

7. Key benefits Education portal solutions can help you: • Increase student engagement. Give students easy ways to connect with their peers to get them more engaged in their classes. • Facilitate anytime, anywhere learning. Provide students with single sign-on access to learning materials and campus resources—from library content to complete online courses—at any time. It will help you get information in intuitive and familiar formats. • Let you get direction on research. Make it easier for you to find relevant material for starting off with research on any topic. • Connect with your community. By proving simple and customized ways to access information and connect with your institution mates, you can reap the benefits of strong connections with peers.

8. IBA Community Network Concept Presentation

9. The Concept • Online Portal: which will have five parts: • Groups • Presentations • Reports • Cases • Forums • Replace facefriendship.com with a more meaningful social website and sharing portal specific for the needs of students.

10. Introduction • Need ? • Google Groups will no longer be supporting file sharing • Students needs an online file sharing system where they can share academic material with their fellow students. • Usage of online groups is very common in IBA • So, such portal should be specific to their needs • Institute sponsored sharing portal will cater to their needs in a better manner

11. Research – Purpose & Methodology • Purpose: To find out if students need an online portal for resource sharing and networking; what kind of resource; and who is allowed to access the portal • Sample: • Random stratified sample • 200 respondents • Students; IBA • Questionnaire based • Close-ended questions

12. Q1: Do you think www.facefriendship.com was a good idea? • Most people think facefriendship isn’t a good idea • Those who like it, is because it offers socializing opportunity for the students of IBA only a few have joined this network

13. Q2: Do you think there should be a portal for file sharing? • Many people think there should a file sharing portal • It provides easy access to academic resources • Although few are of the view that since this leads to plagiarism and piracy, there isn’t any need for such portal

14. Q3: Do you think IBA should replace www.facefriendship.com with a file sharing portal? • Almost same percentage of people want facefriendship to be replaced by file sharing portal • 6% of those who said ‘No’, wants a totally new portal for this purpose • They are of the view that facefriendship must be continued

15. Q4: Along with online groups, will you support the idea of online library on such portal, where Report/Presentations can also be shared? • People support the idea of sharing students’ Reports/Presentations etc online through such portal • However, some are concerned of the plagiarism and piracy issues.

16. Q5: If yes, who can share such resource? • Of those who want student library to be maintained, almost half are of the view that only IBA students should be allowed to upload such resources • Others want to broaden the scope of networking • They want to have access to resources by anyone willing to share on the portal

17. Q6: Who, do you think, can join this portal? • Almost the same number of students, who want IBA students to upload resources, want this portal to be exclusively for IBA students • Around 35% are of the view of broadening the scope for only students • Since these are academic resource, only 8% think this should be available for anyone

18. Q7: Will you join this portal? • Most of the sample was willing to join this portal, as it is providing with quality academic resource • Searching for the required information is easier • Plagiarism and piracy issues still stops a few from joining and accessing such student resource

19. Q8: Will you be willing to contribute your own resource to the portal? • Since this portal will provide with the most recent and sorted resource, many are also willing to join it • Here also we can see that few people show sensitivity about plagiarism and piracy

20. Q9: Select a name for this portal? • Most preferred name the portal: ICN • IBA Community Network • Students not only need an online portal for resource sharing but also for networking • Providing a forum for holding discussions and sharing information • Other names suggested were • Ureka • Students Network • IBA Sharing System • Bubble Share • IBA Students Arena • IBA Network • IBA Share etc.

21. Research Summary • Students do need a online portal for resource sharing, discussions and networking • Students are willing to share their own resource and hold discussions regarding different topic • Students want to broaden the scope of this portal to all this universities • Students wants resources not only from IBA, but also from any other university students, and also wants free access for any student • Our research shows that the students are willing to adopt for the new portal • Since GoogleGroups (currently the most popular file-sharing online social-networking portal), will be removing the feature of file-sharing soon, such a portal is needed as soon as possible

22. The Hierarchy (Navigation)

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24. Home| Files | Logout files Search Advance Search Upload a new file My Favorites Most Popular Marketing Strategies SDLC Approach Software Development Collaborative Filtering Marketing Research

25. Home| Files | Logout files Advance Search Options: Author: Type: Report Presentation Case Category: Teacher: Subject: Rating: Search

26. Home| Files | Logout files Report on Marketing Strategies of Dettol About Author: JunaidAlam Send a message | View profile Download | View as HTML | Open in Google Docs Information • Category : Term Report • Subject/Title Course:Marketing Teacher: Jami Moiz • Uploaded On: 16th December 2009 • Description: Report defining the • market strategies of Uni Lever from 2005 • File Type Sources/ References:Aurora Magazine Rating: Add to My Favorites Tags: Marketing, Report, Lux, Strategy (tag it) Downloaded: 54 Times Share: Facebook, Twitter, ICN group Feedback: Very helpful !! It a good report. Helped me alot :D More from Author Thnx IBA ppl for sharing it !! • Marketing Issues faced by Tapal(Report) • Collaborative Filtering (Presentation) • Supply Chain in Shan Foods (Report) • TCS in Action (Case) Related Files Marketing strategy of Safeguard (Report)

27. Social Tagging Collaborative Filtering and Recommender System

28. Theory of Social Influence

29. Home| Groups | Logout groups Search Advance Search Create a New Group My Groups Most Popular Brand Management Economics Brand Management Economics Finance Finance

30. Home| Groups | Logout groups Brand Management Fall ‘09 Information Created By: Abdul Hadi Teacher: AkhtarMehmood Category: Marketing Members: 54 Type: Private Search this Group Members (54) Files (23) View all.. View all.. Sprite Repositioning Laws of Branding Coke Vs. Pepsi

31. Home| forum| Logout forum Search Forum Advance Search Start a New Topic Hot Topics

32. Implementation • To be designed and implemented by IBA-IT department

33. Promotion Plan • Posters on all notice boards of both campuses • Facebook • Word of Mouth • Web Banner at IBA main website

34. Privacy Plan • Only IBA students can “sign up” • Non- registered viewers can see all the content and can: • Give feedback • Download files • But can not upload any thing • Group owner can control the content visibility

35. How to encourage students to contribute ? • Make mandatory for students to upload there presentations and reports on ICN, otherwise they won’t be graded (enforcement by teachers) • At least for 2 semesters after launch of ICN • MOTIVATE THEM !! • But how? • According to survey results students are willing to contribute. But they are lethargic, very few will take pains of uploading there material on ICN • How we can deal it with ? OR It’s taking us away from the “Social Aspect” Its difficult to keep new students encouraged to share !

36. SWOT Analysis • Strengths • Specific to needs of students • Simple to use • Attractive layout and design • Provide benefits like: • Students can find reference material for their assignments • People from industry can use it • Helpful to non- IBA students also

37. SWOT Analysis • Weaknesses • Its success highly relies on the interest of students in sharing material on it • It will be managed by student body which will change every year, there objectives and ideas can be different from previous management. • Inappropriate / irrelevant material if uploaded by some one can cause harm too the goodwill of IBA and ICN • WHAT DO YOU THINK?

38. SWOT Analysis • Opportunities • Establish culture of sharing and helping among students • Goodwill of IBA • WHAT OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN IDENTIFY ?

39. SWOT Analysis • Threats • Copied by some other university • Management of IBA might not be interested in continuing this project • WHAT YOU THINK IS THREAT TO THIS PROJECT ?

40. The End • Q & A