Design and Development of English Learning Facebook Application based on Platform as a Service (PaaS) by using Smart Gamification

Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Design and Development of English Learning Facebook Application based on Platform as a Service (PaaS) by using Smart Gamification

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Social networking sites like Facebook are not just an element of passing time but a platform for learning as well. The goal of this paper is to show the effectiveness of a Facebook application named “Wishdom” to teach English language based on cloud platform. This application tries to introduce English language in an authentic and communicative manner to the students, where they have to assume different roles (i.e. avatar) to achieve a particular goal. For that purpose they communicate with the other avatar and participate in several quizzes. This study shows the performance of a group of students who played “Wishdom” game and take a quiz as a part of their assessment. Their performance has been presented to show their success rate in learning English. The performance of the application is also measured based on Facebook Graph API. In addition, platform as a service (PaaS) of cloud computing from Heroku has been integrated to host the application and its compatibility is checked in this study.

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Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 2014. "Design and Development of English Learning Facebook Application based on Platform as a Service (PaaS) by using Smart Gamification". Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - E: Network, Web & Security GJCST-E Volume 13 (GJCST Volume 13 Issue E16).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/gjcst

Print ISSN 0975-4350

e-ISSN 0975-4172

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english learning Facebook gamification gaming PaaS social-media virtual world

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GJCST-E Classification I.2.6

Submission ReceivedDecember 12, 2012
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Published February 3, 2014

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Country: Bangladesh

Subject: Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - E: Network, Web & Security

Authors: Md. Mahmudul Hasan, Mahmuda Akhter (PhD/Dr. count: 0)

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