Strategies for Optimizing the Learning Effect of Online Courses through SNS Social Gene

As for the online learning, how to maintain the learners’ motivation and keep them completing the study of all the knowledge points is the difficulty when we do the design and development of online courses. In addition to making good resources of teaching content, improving the integration of online courses is also an important aspect. In order to optimize the psychological environment of learners, who is studying the online coursed, and increase their interest in continuing use of the online courses, SNS social gene could be applied to the online learning process, which may achieve a multiplier effect. The ways that SNS social gene implanted in the online system include sharing with different people, proving the functions like “neighbor”, “competition”, “topic group”, “circle” and others, can attract more learners to study the whole online courses. Keywords-SNS; online learning; online courses; social gene