Social bookmarking systems to enhance students' learning process

Abstract

Social Bookmarking System (SBS) is a Web 2.0 application that can be used to improve the learning process and to induce collaborative learning. SBS is used to engage students to learn in a collaborative learning environment and it enables students to organize their learning contents in flexible ways. SBS provides a tagging feature for students to annotate their learning contents semantically and develop shared vocabularies namely folksonomies that support collaborative tagging to further enrich peer learning contents. This paper presents an analysis and comparison of the SBS, namely Diigo, Delicious, and BibSonomy on their contribution to enhance students' learning process and learning contents management. The finding indicates that the SBS can serve as a personal learning system that allows students to organize their learning contents for improving their learning process. In addition, the SBS provides a collaborative learning environment for students to reuse and share their learning contents with their peer. It also enables collaborative tagging among students. Thus, learning contents become meaningful, cooperatively built, and highly valuable in the learning process.