Student Interaction Communities social requirements reflected by a tool and system landscape

Abstract

What will the future learning and academic support environment look like for students? What are the resulting requirements for a suitable tool landscape? As an active member of different communities, students already use a set of tools especially for communication and networking purposes. Students do not stop the usage of their social tools within their universities. However, universities provide their own tools for students to be connected with the organization. Which tools are out of fashion? Which tool classes are needed? And how is the degree of integration to be achieved with common community tools and systems? This paper analyses requirements from the student point of view and discusses aspects for the integration into an academic IT infrastructure.