App construction needs to include a proper design, relatable context, and the ability to motivate. 

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Digital Learning Ecology Reference Library

A person's learning ecology has distinct combinations of resources that are necessary for the person to learn. Digital learning ecology is focusing on the aspects that are necessary for a digital platform. There needs to be activities for interaction in virtual spaces, and a relation between the learned information and the physical experiences of the person. 
- sociocultural perspectives
- real-world setting
- common language
- individuals backgrounds 

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- Research suggests that online participation including social interaction in collaborative online learning environments, is crucial in motivating students to learn and promote learning satisfaction. There needs to be a balance between group and individual participation for online learning environments to be effective. This study determined two visualization tools to motivate students to participate actively and examine its effects.

- The results show that the visualization tool on online participation can enhance their online participation however, the visualization of individual participation has a greater effect than the visualization of group participation, despite the collaborative learning community. 

Using Visualization to Motivate Student Participation in Collaborative Online Learning Environments 

Visualization tools help the learners monitor their status of online participation by displaying their online participation. Although the learners perform team-based activities, they are motivated by the level of individual participation more than the level of group patricipation.

Displaying Online Participation 

There are three important factors influencing the online learning effectiveness;
- interaction with teachers
- level of participation 
- interaction with peers 


Influences on online learning effectiveness 

Sung-Hee Jin. “Using Visualization to Motivate Student Participation in Collaborative Online Learning Environments.” Journal of Educational Technology & Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2017, pp. 51–62. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/90002163. Accessed 12 Oct. 2020.

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