Analysis of Active Learning for Social Media to Support Crisis Management

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Social media text mining and network analysis for decision support in natural crisis management

A core issue in crisis management is to extract from the mass of incoming information what is important for situational awareness during mass emergencies. Based on a case study we develop a prototypical application, TweetComp1, which is integrated into the decision-support component of a Tsunami early warning system and demonstrates the applicability of our approach. This paper describes four n...

Crisees: Real-Time Monitoring of Social Media Streams to Support Crisis Management

The Crisees demonstrator is a service that aggregates and collects social media streams to support Crisis Managment 1 Crisis Event Manager Social media streams provide access to unprecedented amounts of information describing ongoing events as they unfold [1]. Tapping into these real-time sources about critical events can provide authorities and agencies dealing with such emergencies and crises...

Processing Social Media Data for Crisis Management in Athena

Using social media to support small group learning

BACKGROUND Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are best supported with information technology. We explored how university-supported and external social media could support collaborative small group working on our new undergraduate medical curriculum. METHODS We mad...