Benefits of Web 2.0 in the College Writing Classroom

Empowering Mobile Assisted Social E-Learning: Students’ Expectations and Perceptions

“…Results from Johnson and Johnson (1975) study reported positive outcomes from cooperative learning including increasing higher level reasoning, increasing generation of new ideas and solutions, and enhancing transferring of learning between situations. Studies (Tsay & Brady, 2010;Wang et al, 2010) also support that cooperative learning is an active pedagogy that fosters higher academic achievement. Five essential elements identified in cooperative learning include positive interdependence, individual accountability, group processing, social skills, and face-to-face interaction (Johnson & Johnson, 1989).…”

“…As users of mobile technologies become dramatically widespread worldwide, it is more likely that they will become ubiquitous in the lives of learners (Looi et al, 2010). The increasing and ubiquitous use of Web 2.0 activities, such as social networking, wikis, and blogging, provides a viable avenue for cooperative learning proactively (Ajjan & Hartshorne, 2008;Wang, Wang, Fang, & Lin, 2010). Pedagogically, engaging learners in cooperative learning involving sharing their ideas and work cooperatively and helpfully to complete group projects is one of the major pathways to scaffold learning development (Effandi & Zanaton, 2007;Johnson & Johnson, 1994) as learning is a social activity (Chen & Bryer, 2012;Smith & MacGregor, 1992;Vygotsky, 1978).…”