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Title:
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A MOBILE SOCIAL SOFTWARE APPLICATION TO SUPPORT WORK BASED LEARNING IN SOCIAL WORK |
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Author(s):
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Balbir S. Barn , Samia Oussena , Ravinder Barn |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-95-9 |
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Editors:
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Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector,Pedro Isaías and Dirk Ifenthaler |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Social Software, Mobile Device, Social Work, Web 2.0 |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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227 |
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Last Page:
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234 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Mobile devices their prevalence and capability affords new disruptive approaches to learning. In particular the potential
needs of learners in work based settings have most to benefit from this. In parallel, the role of social software in Higher
Education has been recognized and more recently social software applications on mobile devices are becoming widely
available. This paper describes ongoing research in the design and development of feature rich mobile social software
applications for the Social Work domain. The paper contributes an adaptation of theories of work based learning with
social constructivism derived from the knowledge management domain and demonstrates how these theories have been
implemented in a social software tool. The paper also provides an evaluation of the design of the tools using an emerging
reference model for understanding and evaluating mobile software applications. |
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