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Many social psychological phenomena that are found in face-to-face group work are also found in online group work (i.e., collaborative learning). In this chapter, we describe some of these more common phenomena, including social loafing, social categorization, and a variety of cognitive distortions. We also describe the stages that groups go through in order to become fully functioning teams. Because some of these experiences are unpleasant for both the instructor and the student, both faculty and students sometimes resist the use of collaborative learning. Furthermore, because of the anonymous nature of online group work, these negative experiences can be magnified. -
Group Norm Setting: A Critical Skill for Effective Classroom Groups - Link to PDF
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The authors assert that cooperative learning techniques coupled with effective group norm setting can produce more highly functional classroom groups at the college level. After reviewing the types of educational groups and the elements of cooperative learning, procedures are discussed for establishing positive group norms. Re-visiting these established group norms is stressed as a means of creating optimally functional groups. This information is useful for college teachers. -
Anecdote: Why people don't use collaboration tools
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- The many stages of growth, discussing themes of balancing forces (soft vs hard security, readers vs writers, familiarity vs anonymity, ...) of an OnlineCommunity within a wiki, with enough pragmatic specifics to guide a budding wiki builder, and collating links to relevant pages of best practice/worst practice
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Gardening / Socialtext Customer Exchange
Wiki gardening with link to wiki gardening tips
- Gardening
- One of the great things about a wiki is the way structure emerges
organically. Rather than imposing rigid "top down" hierarchies,
taxonomies, and ontologies a wiki enables people to organize ideas and
conversations in ways that make sense to them. The structure emerges
and over time, and is constantly evolving.
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1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
90-9-1 principle
- In Internet culture, the 1% rule or the 90-9-1 principle (sometimes also presented as 89:10:1 ratio[1]) reflects a theory that more people will lurk in a virtual community than will participate. This term is often used to refer to participation inequality in the context of the Internet.
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Saturday, 9 April 2011
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Wiki science is the study of how the phenomenon of wikis, and free, open collaborative works in general (like free software and open source), are growing, changing and adapting.
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Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
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A community is like a ship: everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
—Henrik IbsenIn many respects, the wide-open ethic of wikis contrasts vividly with the traditional approaches of standard groupware and collaborative systems. Access restrictions, rigidly defined workflows, and structures are anathema to most wiki developers. What’s unique about wikis is that users define for themselves how their processes and groups will develop, usually by making things up as they go along.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html
Ideas for using a wiki and advice for wiki success.
- Once you've used a wiki for a project, you'll find it hard to go back to regular methods. You'll find yourself using wiki syntax in emails, and your own WikiWords in conversation. Using the wiki as your notebook will ensure you don't lose the seeds of good ideas, and spending time browsing and gardening will keep those ideas returning when you need them. Most of all, you'll find that having a shared memory on a large project moves the administrivia out of the way and lets you concentrate on the real job.
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Focus on using Twitter for a radio station social media strategy
- Part 2 of this series
- discusses twitter and how a station manager can use it to gain listeners and visits.
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- This post is meant to be a starting point for discussing some of the techniques that internet radio stations can use to harness the power of social media to drive traffic to their site and listeners to their streaming servers. This is not an exhaustive list of techniques – but this should be a good starting place for a radio station director or manager.
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The Role of Open Educational Resources in Personal Learning
Slideshare from Stephen Downes
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Learning Organisations - Slideshare
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The Issue of Self-Motivation in F2F and Online Learning « Educational Technology and Change Journal
Interesting blog discussion on motivation and online learning
- The internet is well suited to learners who are completely self-regulated, aggregating learning resources from a variety of sources, seeking out their own channels of support and collaboration. There has never been a better time to manage your own learning experience.
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Learnings from a MOOC « Educational Technology and Change Journal
- Is there an ideal way to ensure that technology is an aid to learning rather than a blockade? I believe there is. The MOOC course created a facilitated microcosm of an educational technology world. If I had questions about the technology or the course, there were avenues to ask them, including the synchronous Elluminate sessions and email. There were opportunities to post an original idea and to post responses to others’ ideas. We could use words, graphics — Wordle or a mind map for example — or videos to get our thoughts and points across. The teachers were well versed in the use of all of these tools.
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