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Using Social Media for Collaborative Learning in Higher Education: A Case Study

This paper investigates the acceptability of using social media for collaborative learning in the context of higher education. A social media platform, Graasp, is used to support students’ learning activities in a project-based course. An evaluation of Gra ...

2012

A Decentralized Online Social Network with Efficient User-Driven Replication

Karl Aberer, Rammohan Narendula, Athanasios Papaioannou

Unprecedented growth of online social networks (OSNs) increasingly makes privacy advocates and government agencies worrisome alike. In this paper, we propose My3, a privacy-friendly decentralized alternative for online social networking. The My3 system exp ...

IEEE2012

Modeling and Understanding Communities in Online Social Media using Probabilistic Methods

Radu Andrei Negoescu

The amount of multimedia content is on a constant increase, and people interact with each other and with content on a daily basis through social media systems. The goal of this thesis was to model and understand emerging online communities that revolve aro ...

EPFL2011

The 3A Interaction Model and Relation-Based Recommender System : Adopting Social Media Paradigms in Designing Personal Learning Environments

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We live in a rapidly changing digital world marked by technological advances, and fraught with online information constantly growing thanks to the Internet revolution and the online social applications in particular. Formal learning acquired in traditional ...

EPFL2010

Modeling and Understanding Flickr Communities through Topic-based Analysis

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With the increased presence of digital imaging devices there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from passive consumers of media into content creators and have started organizing themselves in ...

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Evaluating Cases in Legal Disputes as Rival Theories

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In this paper we propose to draw a link from the quantitative notion of coherence, previously used to evaluate rival scientific theories, to legal reasoning. We evaluate the stories of the plaintiff and the defendant in a legal case as rival theories by me ...

2010

Through thickness air permeability of prepregs during cure

Véronique Michaud, Sandra Sequeira Lopes Tavares

An experimental method based on a falling pressure measurement is proposed to evaluate the through thickness air permeability of prepregs during cure, with two set-up variants. One concerns the measurement of the inherent air permeability and the other app ...

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