The Study Of The Integrative Application Of Social Software-Based On Learning Community Theory

The coming of the WEB2.0, the rising of the social software and the changing of the network environment bring challenges on the optimization of learning as well as give the new chances and the technical supports. In recent years, the study of the educational use of social software acquired a lot of scholars' attention in the field of educational technology. It gradually became the development tendency in this field. However, there are no intensive study on the educational use of the social software now. Most of the research only concerned with a certain kind of social software, such as Blog, Wiki, in to the teaching process. Then study the educational use of social software through pracise teaching. The study is helpful for us to realize the educational use potential of the social software, but it barely survey the educational use characters of each social software so that it ignored the importance of the integration and application (integrative application) of social software. This study tries to form a unified learning community view on the basis of the theoretical analysis of the learning community theory, and then take this view as a guide to do the integration and application (integrative application) of social software in education. Realize the educational function of the social software to the largest extent and finally promote the optimization of learningAs the study of the integration and application (Integrative Application) of social software which based on learning community has a profound social meaning, this research employs content analysis, questionnaire survey and statistical analysis as the main research methods. This thesis contains following parts.Firstly, starting from the analysis of the basic concept, I got the conclusion that the relationship between the learning community theory and other learning theory is not opposite and irreconcilable though the study and analysis of the relevant literature, just the contrary learning community theory can make up the weak point of other theories. Based on the theoretical analysis of each learning theory , this study suggests a unified learning community view.Secondly, choosing the representive theses about the application of social software as the sample, analyzing the samples by word frequency analysis software. The study shows that different kinds of social software have different characteristics in teaching and these characteristics have close relation with the conception of learning which advocateed by learning community.Thirdly, according to the above conclusion, the research obtain a view of the integrative application on the basis of social software of learning community. Under a certain circumstance, you can choose a proper social software to learn in terms of the learning assignment and object.At last, creating a learning platform by opensource course administation Moodle. Then it was tried out under the guide of unified application view and the useful information was found out by questionnaire survey .The study shows that this unified application view can not only promote the Integration of the social software but also improve the learning effectively. Finally, the weak point of this research is presented by the result of the investigation and directions for future research are discussed.