Social Learning Software
Enable online student-to-student and student-to-instructor interactions. On-demand elearning has many benefits, but typically short changes the student-to-student and student-to-instructor interactions that play such an invaluable role in the classroom environment. ABJAD readily connects students and instructors using popular collaborative social learning technologies.
Extend interactions beyond the class timeframe to provide ongoing learning and knowledge sharing. Students and instructors can continue to ask questions and share knowledge to support their on-the-job knowledge requirements.
Reach a broader set of experts. Typically, the instructor is the primary expert for students. ABJAD provides frictionless access to experts throughout the organization to answer questions faster, share the task of answering questions, and provide a broader perspective.
Re-use knowledge once it’s shared. Within classrooms informal knowledge sharing happens but the knowledge is seldom captured for sharing more broadly. With ABJAD all knowledge shared is automatically captured, categorized for re-use by current and future students.
Key Features
- Communities & Wikis: Provide popular and proven on-line facilities for students and experts to share knowledge. Enhance the learning experience by enabling collaborative learning as an integral part of the learning process so that learners benefit from the experiences of others.
- Expertise Exchange: Enables students to ask questions of instructors and other appropriate experts. The system keeps track of the questions, forwards to the appropriate people and escalates questions that are not answered. Questions to experts are tracked so as to not overload any individual expert. The system automatically captures non-private exchanges, making them instantly available for re-use by current and future students. Experts are easily notified and can respond via email making knowledge sharing easy.
- Private Messaging: Although enabling, capturing and sharing informal student-to-student and student-to-instructor exchanges is invaluable, there are times when students want to ask a question in private or when instructors want to mentor a student in a confidential manner. Private messaging readily supports these exchanges while protecting the participants’ privacy.
- Organic knowledge capture: As questions are asked, answered, and information is shared, the knowledge is automatically captured and categorized for future use.