Citazione: Antonella Giove ; Alessandro Quarto; Vincenzo Di Lecce, Social network with a built-in learning component for emergency communication exchange, International Conference Distance Learning, Simulation and Communication DLSC 2011, 10-11 May 2011
Abstract: Today the professionalism of the military and government agencies is subject to profound changes in view of the complex nature of events such as terrorism, environmental and territorial disasters, international conflicts etc. This paper proposes the use of a social network to promote social mobility education by involving a network of people, government and military agencies over a vast territory. The goal is designing a geo-referenced social platform that connects these users with each other by entrusting them the task to report emergencies through real time comments, photos and videos following the participatory knowledge concept under web 2.0 spirit so they can learn from each other. The proposed method considers the information transfer as learning resource at various levels. In emergency situations, the rapid exchange of relevant information is crucial that’s why it is so important that all task forces must keep pace with society's changes especially in the field of communication systems. Innovation and learning are the key words to describe the communication transformation in the Internet age. E-learning has changed its traditional meaning expanding its scope of application to knowledge management systems In this regard, the social network trend could offer interesting knowledge management solutions: just thinking of Twitter that was a powerful information communication tool during Iran's period of civil unrest. We aim at a web based collaborative platform able to support task forces about social issues while stimulating shared knowledge creation within an “architecture of participation” (O'Reilly, 2005a) and facilitating the learning of new technologies.
Keyword: Social network, e-learning