There is a presentation paper in the university’s online library by Igor Balaban and Goran Bubas entitled ‘Educational Potentials of ePortfolio Systems: Student Evaluation of Mahara and Elgg’. The paper was presented as part of ITI 32nd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces which took place in Cavtat, Croatia between 21-24 June 2010. The paper […]

A recent paper entitled ‘Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics’ (Cannarella, J & Spechler, A, 2014) attempts to use epidemiological models to map the adoption and eventual abandonment of past and current online social networks (OSN). In other words, it suggests the rise and fall of websites like MySpace, and likely Facebook, is akin […]

Participating in the first Student Engagement Forum provided an opportunity to ask students firsthand whether they use social media to engage with the university and what, if any, online systems they use to access and disseminate information. The answer to come out of today’s session is that students generally do not use social media to […]