Frameworks for Understanding the Nature of Interactions, Networking, and Community in a Social Networking Site for Academic Practice

Frameworks for Understanding the Nature of Interactions, Networking, and Community in a Social Networking Site for Academic Practice

This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims to foster new forms of social and participatory practices (peer critiquing, shari...

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Main Authors: Grainne Conole, Rebecca Galley, Juliette Culver
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2011-03-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Subjects:
Cloudworks
social networking
Web 2.0
social and participatory web practices
frameworks
connectivism
actor-network theory
activity theory
communities of practice
communities of inquiry
design-based research
Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/914/1666

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