A study on online networking and collaboration among school teachers


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Creator/Artist: Labeeba K

Category: Interaction Design

Document: Design Research

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Girish Dalvi


Detailed Description

Social networking sites like facebook, mobile instant messaging(MIM) apps like whatsapp and online education websites like Mathblog are bringing new communication and collaboration behaviors among school teachers in even peri urban and rural India. Teachers in general spend a lot of time in the classrooms reducing opportunities for interacting with their colleagues and hence faster and easier communication through social media has attracted them. From an ethnographic study of teachers in 4 secondary schools of Calicut, Kerala, I describe how smart applications are moulding teacher’s opinions and communications with each other. I also analyze the whatsapp usage behavior in teacher groups using the prototype. Post experiment questionnaire was given out to measure the confidence users had when using the application through likert scale responses