social networking platform for education

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ConnectU

Social Network for Higher

Education Institutions


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Brief info on Social Networking

Challenges in using social networking for education

Our Proposal: Social Networking for HEI

Introducing ConnectU

Potential revenue from ConnectU

Product Roadmap

Business Model

Table of Content


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1978 First Bulletin Board System (BBS) is

born 1995Geocities service is launched

1997 Social media SixDegrees.com is

launched

1999

Blogging service Blogger is launched

2002Friendster is launched

2003Myspace and Linkedin are born

2004

Facebook launches 2006 Text based social media Twitter is born

2012 Facebook acquired Instagram

How it all started


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Early 90s

Mid 90s

2003

Late 90s-2002

2005 2009onwards

Bulletin Board Systems

(BBS)

Forums,

User Groups

Social Network: Then & Now


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1 in every 9 people on earth is on

Facebook with over 800 millionusers

Total number of Malaysianinternet users are 17 million.

60% or nearly 10 million of them

are active Facebook users.

Interesting Facts on Social Media


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Interesting Facts on Social Media


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233 Friends!233 Friends!


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Social Networking in Education: US


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Social Networking in Education: Malaysia


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Social Networking for HEI


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Dedicated to official local HEI Only people within the HEI community can join

Connect people, students, staffs, lecturers, alumni

Make new friends, renewing old ones Knowledge sharing and collaboration

Campus wide surveys

Polling, recruitment

Staying connected to campus culture

Benefits of Using

Social Networking for HEI


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Introduction To


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Agenda

What is ConnectU?

Target User

Using ConnectU

Dashboard

Notes & Tips

Friends

Groups


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What is ConnectU?

is the latest learning solution.It is an edu-social website that connects

students & lecturers to interact using theeasy to use features such as blogs, forums,notes & tips, grouping and so much more.

In addition, users of ConnectU can also

store & share videos, pictures, games and

so much more for FREE


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Target User

Universities

CollegesLecturers


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ConnectU Main Page


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Using ConnectU - Dashboard

DashboardNotes &

TipsmyExam Friends Groups

DashboardIs where all recent activities

of all users are updated.Also known as users news

feed.See your friends, teachers

& parents update theirprofile, share notes & tipsand etc.


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Notes & Tips

Notes & Tips

Is where you can share withothers any useful notes &tipsAdd your own notes & tipsView Friends notes & tips

DashboardNotes &



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myExam

myExamPrepare for your exam online for assessment

Question bank moduleSupport Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) only

DashboardNotes &



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Friends

FriendsAdd friendsInvite friendsRequest relationshipSee friends & viewtheir profile

DashboardNotes &



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Groups

Groups

Build/Create socialcommunity/GroupInvite friends to share yourinterestLets all in the group todiscuss & give opinion.

DashboardNotes &



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ConnectU Features

Dashboard

Topics

Trends

Survey

Activities

Networks

News


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Dashboard


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ConnectU Modules

ForumCollaborationTools

Blogs Sharing

LinkingVoting

SurveyForms

Dashboard

EventCalendar

Modules depends onuser rights

NewsFeed

MessagingMultimedia

Gallery

G6 ConnectU

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Proposed Architecture

Any device;

PC, Laptop,

Tablet, Handphone

l h ld i k ?


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How long should it take?

Impossible

is nothing.

1 million students

within 2 years.

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Our Value Propositions

Integrated social network

Collaboration between students from

Different universities

Peace of Mind

Education related matters.

Safe for Students

Student friendly language.

Eliminate cyber bullying between classmate.

No distractions e.g games, friends, pictures, ads

Easy for Lecturers

Student submit assignment online.

Online assessment.

Study group.

Why Should They Care ?

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Supporting Apps Student Loan, admission intake

Recruiting to Colleges, University Marketing Survey / Questionnaires

Advertisements

MLM

Multimedia Content Development

Soft skills business Interview, communication

Database

Job Agencies

Revenue Stream

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Revenue Stream

Educational Apps StoreMag/ePaper Subscription

Redeemable Points

Soft Skills Assessment

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Revenue Stream (Contd.)

PTPTN Fund Allocation

Recruiting to

University/Colleges

Recruiting Agencies

social networking platform for education

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