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Analysis of the Questioning Pattern of Students in Mobile Learning: with focus on Twitter Application

모바일러닝에서 학생들의 질문패턴 분석: 트위터활용 중심

  • Ha, Il-Kyu (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University) ;
  • Ha, Sung-Yong (Department of Computer Information, Kyungbuk College) ;
  • Kim, Chong-Gun (Department of Computer Engineering, Yeungnam University)
  • Received : 2014.02.05
  • Accepted : 2014.03.16
  • Published : 2014.05.31
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Abstract

Because Twitter provides an easy way to reweet and reply to other user's tweets, it is used to delivery our opinion to others and get useful information from followers as a useful tool. Recently, there have been many attempts to use Twitter in many application area. Especially, Twitter has been tried to use in education area. Twitter service can be used in educational environments as a communication tool between professor and students and among students without restriction on space and time. Twitter service has good possibility of applying, but there have not been many studies that prove the effectiveness and possibility of the tool as a useful educational tool through experimental studies. In this study, Twitter is used as a tool of the question-and- answer session of the university students during a semester. And the activities are investigated and analyzed. As the results of the analysis, if we do not force the use of Twitter, Twitter utilization of students is low. Thus, we show that Twitter has the potential for educational utilizing, but the aggressive efforts between professor and students are needed to show such effects.

트위터(Twitter)는 상대방의 트윗(tweet)에 대해 리트윗(retweet) 또는 응답(reply)하는 방법이 용이하여 손쉬운 의사 전달과 정보 획득의 도구로 활용되고 있다. 최근 들어 이러한 트위터를 다양한 분야에 이용하려는 시도가 있어 왔고, 특히 교육분야에 이용하고자 하는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 트위터는 교육현장에서 교수자와 학습자간의 의사소통 도구로 활용되거나, 시간과 공간의 제약 없이 학습자들의 협동학습에 활용되어 질 수 있다. 이와 같이 트위터가 다양한 활용 가능성을 가지고 있음에도 불구하고, 실질적인 적용 및 고찰을 통해 그 교육적 효과를 입증하는 연구는 많지 않다. 본 연구에서는 트위터를 대학의 한 학기동안 학생들의 질의 응답도구로 활용하도록 하고 그 활동을 조사, 분석한다. 분석 결과, 트위터 활용을 강제하지 않은 경우 학생들의 트위터 활용도는 낮게 나타난다. 따라서 트위터는 교육적 활용 가능성을 가지고 있지만, 그러한 효과를 나타내기 위해서는 교수자와 학습자간에 적극적인 노력이 필요함을 보인다.

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