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E-Portal and Social LearningAbdul Hadi

Farah FarooqMaaz Shamim

Malik Asqaf SafdarMudassar Shahid

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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

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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

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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

community as well as for individual person.

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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.

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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

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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.

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IBA Community NetworkConcept Presentation

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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.

The Concept

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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

Introduction

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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

Yes30%

No62%

N/R8%

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

Q1: Do you think www.facefriendship.com was a good idea?

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Yes79%

No21%

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

Q2: Do you think there should be a portal for file sharing?

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Yes72%

No27%

N/R1%

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

Q3: Do you think IBA should replace www.facefriendship.com with a file sharing portal?

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Yes87%

No13%

N/R1%

People support the idea of sharing students’ Reports/Presentations etc online through such portal

However, some are concerned of the plagiarism and piracy issues.

Q4: Along with online groups, will you support the idea of online library on such portal, where Report/Presentations can also be shared?

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IBA Students52%Anyone

43%

N/R6%

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

Q5: If yes, who can share such resource?

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IBA Students56%

Students35%

Anyone8%

N/R1%

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

Q6: Who, do you think, can join this portal?

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Yes85%

No15%

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

Q7: Will you join this portal?

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Yes79%

No20%

N/R2%

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

Q8: Will you be willing to contribute your own resource to the portal?

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ICN27%

ISN24%ISC

15%

IFS14%

Other17%

N/R2%

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.

Q9: Select a name for this portal?

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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

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ICN(Main Page)

Groups Files

Presentations Case Studies Reports

Forums

The Hierarchy (Navigation)

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,,icn

,IBA Community Network

Groups | Files | Forums

Institute of BusinessAdministration, Karachi.A project by students of

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filesHome| Files | Logout

SearchAdvance Search

Upload a new file

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Marketing Strategies

SDLC Approach

Software Development

Collaborative Filtering

Marketing Research

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filesHome| Files | Logout

Search

Advance Search Options:

Author:Type: Report Presentation CaseCategory:Teacher:

Subject:

Rating:

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Report on Marketing Strategies of Dettol

Rating:

Very helpful !!

It a good report. Helped me alot :D

Thnx IBA ppl for sharing it !!

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

About Author:

Junaid Alam Send a message | View profile

Tags: Marketing, Report, Lux, Strategy (tag it)

Download | View as HTML | Open in Google Docs

Feedback:

Downloaded: 54 TimesShare: Facebook, Twitter, ICN group

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Collaborative Filtering and Recommender System

Social Tagging

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Theory of Social Influence

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To be designed and implemented by IBA-IT department

Implementation

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Posters on all notice boards of both campuses

Facebook

Word of Mouth

Web Banner at IBA main website

Promotion Plan

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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

Privacy Plan

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How to encourage students to contribute ?

It’s taking us away from the “Social Aspect”

Its difficult to keep new students encouraged to share !

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

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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

SWOT Analysis

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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?

SWOT Analysis

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Opportunities Establish culture of sharing and helping among students

Goodwill of IBA

WHAT OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN IDENTIFY ?

SWOT Analysis

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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 ?

SWOT Analysis

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Q & A

The End