How Short-Video Platforms Can Enhance Your Learning Experience

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Introduction
Using the Internet has been part of one’s daily routine in today’s generation whether it be for educational use, business, news update, or for entertainment due to its usefulness, reliability, and easy accessibility. It contains almost all of the information that a person might want to know or need as it is considered as one of the easiest tools to communicate with other people. With the advancement of this technology, educational activities have been taking place in online communities where knowledge can be shared between users. The sharing of content among users in online communities has all sprang up from a platform called Web 2.0 which also gave rise to social media. Social media networks alone have several advantages and usage which led to the creation of other applications that have similar features with social media. An example of this is the short-video platform which does not only have features of social media but also enables the user to create and browse short videos. Tiktok is a representative of this platform. Therefore, this paper aims to provide insights into the uses of short-video platforms and how it offers collaborative learning to its users to enhance and improve their learning experience.
Collaborative learning on Web 2.0 and Social media
Almost everyone in this modern and advanced world spends much of their time engaging on their latest phones, tablets, or laptops to access a website without actually knowing the awesome tool behind that. In this generation, technologies and services on the web all comprised Web 2.0. This so-called Web 2.0 involves sites for social networking, blogs, tools for communication, wikis, and folksonomies. This application platform is recognized as dynamic and highly interactive as it offers services to users which are centered on content sharing. Several popular applications have resulted from Web 2.0 such as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. Through this platform, online users can work together in generating input and information and facilitate the sharing of knowledge via the Internet community (Murugesan, 2007).
Social media is considered as a direct derivative of Web 2.0. Developed from the foundations of Web 2.0, both technologically and ideologically, social media pertains to a group of applications that are Internet-based wherein the generation and exchange of user-generated content (UGC) is permitted. In addition to this, Bowley defined social media as “collaborative online applications and technologies which enable and encourage participation, conversation, openness, creation and socialization amongst a community of users” (2009).
Humans are known to be “social beings.” As a result of this, the internet has been evolving from being a tool that offers information to be a platform where people can socially interact, communicate, and be in touch with each other’s lives. The creation of social networks has enabled individuals to access online services wherein one can create a profile that can be viewed by other users within an entrenched net system. In addition to this, the users are able to share information with each other, interch...