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Title:
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VIRTUAL WHITEBOARD AND CHAT FOR A LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM |
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Author(s):
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Ana Belén Cara Carmona , Carlos Moreno Muñoz , Antonio Cañas Vargas |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-58-4 |
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Editors:
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Miguel Baptista Nunes and Maggie McPherson (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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V I, 2 |
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Keywords:
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Chat, virtual whiteboard, e-learning, synchronous communication, learning management system |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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263 |
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Last Page:
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270 |
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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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In this work we present a virtual whiteboard and chat tool which has been developed and integrated in a learning
management system (SWAD). It is being used as a teaching aid for several degrees at the University of Granada (UGR).
Since it started being used, at the end of academic year 2006/2007, it has been successfully used in several courses. This
new tool solves some of the disadvantages that appear in other similar chat systems. We may remark as its main features
the following: user identification by the use of photographs and full names, chat and whiteboard sessions storage, its ease
of use and its accessibility, in the sense that it is able to work in a wide variety of platforms and does not require any
installation process. In this paper we intend to motivate its usefulness and to describe the application itself, giving some
details about its implementation; besides, we will show some use statistics and will propose some future work. |
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