A conceptual social learning ontology for higher education in e-learning 2.0

Abstract

In Web 2.0 era, social learning occurs when a group of individual interacts to support each other in learning process using any media; one of them is social media. From many perspectives particularly for educational, it is interesting to examine how social media can contribute to the learning process. This channel can support an interactive process that occurs when a group of learners collaborates with other to combine their knowledge into new insights. This research focuses on identifying social learning factors framework that enable higher education to be sustainable and be more adaptive. It also depicts conceptual social learning ontology according to Zachman Framework for enhancing collaboration and increasing responsiveness by leveraging social media channel in higher education. The objective of this study is to support classification scheme for descriptive representations of the social learning model. That is not only doing the design artifacts, but it depicts all supportive components to the organizational perspective. This set of view appears to be universal of the subject or object being described, including what (data), how (function), where (network), who (people), when (time), and why (motivation). The primary method of this study is systematic literature review process to define social learning factors that can be mapped into Zachman Framework. The result of this research is conceptual of ontology model for social learning that can be implemented for higher education.