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Authors:
Noriko Hanakawa
Masaki Obana
Keywords: e-portfolio; smartphone; SNS; GPA; school life; university education.
Abstract:
We have developed a new educational e-portfolio environment including not only conventional education data but also school life data in university. School life data means non-lectures activities, such as job hunting, club activities, students’ communications. A most important feature of the e-portfolio environment is a school concierge named “HapiNan” in smartphone in order to navigate students’ school life. The school concierge asks some questions in a smartphone according to student situations. The smart concierge provides mobility and ubiquity of the educational e-portfolio environment. Our goal is to clarify influences of school life activities on university learning. From April to September 2013, a trial version of the system ran. From April 2014, freshmen in our university used the system. We have two phases in order to analyze e-portfolio data. In the first phase, fourth year students used the e-portfolio system. As a result, students’ job hunting problems are clear. (1) Job hunting time is 40hours per a week, (2) no relations between Grade Point Average (GPA) and job hunting success, (3) job hunting cost is large. In second phase, freshmen used the e-portfolio system in the first year of education. We found that there was a relationship between GPA and lecture time as well as hobby time. In addition, there was no relation between GPA and home study time or part-time job time. The analysis results are valuable for school advisors and teachers in order to support freshmen’s school life.
Pages: 13 to 18
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015
Publication date: July 19, 2015
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2326-9383
ISBN: 978-1-61208-422-0
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from July 19, 2015 to July 24, 2015