Category Archives: Online Learning
Online Learning: Social Interaction and the Creation of a Sense of Community
Review of Article: McInnemey, J.M., & Roberts, T.S. (2004). Online Learning: Social Interaction and the Creation of a Sense of Community. Educational Technology & Society, 7 (3), 73-81. Problem Presented in Article Students, who study within an online environment, … Continue reading
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Time constraints and it’s impact on online students developing a sense of community
Recently, Leslie Burkhardt of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO) was kind enough to write and ask me about how time constraints influence students in online environments. I hope I can address her question adequately. She wrote: “In essence, as … Continue reading
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Web 2.0 Technologies: Collective Intelligence for Education
Web 2.0 Learning Platform: Harnessing Collective Intelligence. Please enjoy this thoughtful paper on how technology is changing the way we learn and teach. Web 2.0 Technologies and Education In short, in today’s world everyone is both a teacher and a … Continue reading
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Sense of Community: Online Learning Environments
A phenomenological investigation of a sense of community within an adult online learning environment. Abstract: Learning is a process that occurs within a social context. We learn from one another through the sharing of experiences, collaboration, negotiation and articulation of … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence hopes to answer the question: “How can people and computers be connected so that collectively they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?” Klein (2007) addressed the inherent problems … Continue reading
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Collective Intelligence: What is collective intelligence and augmented social cognition?
Collective Intelligence Collective intelligencecan be defined as an organically grown bank of knowlege, which providesthe group with a totalsum of knowledge that is fargreater than what each individual member could produce or realize on their own. Information within collective intelligenceis … Continue reading
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Teacher’s Guide: What is Podcasting?
What is Podcasting? Podcasts are essentially episodes of programming delivered via the Internet. They can useaudio, video or PDFs or a combination of all three. Content publishers utilize RSS feeds which contain metadata, allowing for the broadcast to be catalogued … Continue reading
Education: Situated Cognition
Comparative Organizer: Situated Cognition Author:Diane Michel Representative theorists Jean Lave €” A social anthropologist whose studies focus on learning through social interaction and situated learning. Significant breakthroughs achieved by “reconceiving” ideas of “learning, learners, and educational institutions”. Doesn’t believe that … Continue reading
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Education: Online Learning Sense of Community
Building social interaction and facilitating a sense of community within an OLE. Author: Diane Michel March 20, 2006 Abstract: Learning is a process that occurs within a social context.We learn from one another through the sharing of experiences, collaboration, negotiation … Continue reading
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Medical: MIT Open Courseware Medical Courses
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