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October 24, 2008

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Digital Environments: Exploring Assignment Ideas

In previous posts - see communities and collaboration or individualism and isolation, I have explored a possible assignment topic for this module.

Another has just occured to me, having particularly enjoyed our week looking at E-portfolios and following the discussion and emotive connections associated with something so deeply personal as 'reflection'.

In many discussions, not just this week's, the role of social learning has been considered and debated. If learning is indeed truly social, this has left me wondering where 'conversation' belongs in an elearning context; and how  technology could facilitate the integration of this type of learning, - discussion board posts and threads,  personal discussions/reflections in weblogs and e-porfolios.  Is there a missing link?

 

Keywords: Assignment, Conversation, Discussion, IDEL08, Learning, Reflection

Posted by Alison Johnson

Comments

  1. Sounds like a good topic. I'm sure there's plenty of educational literature you could bring in on the value of conversation in teaching and learning, before even getting to the e-learning side - which then you could relate to the various technologies in various ways.

    Rory EwinsRory Ewins on Tuesday, 04 November 2008, 14:27 GMT # |

  2. Looks like I have opted to go for another topic for this module, however this is one I would like to revisit, hopefully in another module. References to follow up however would be:

    Dezhi, Wu (2004). Predicting Learning from Asynchronous Online Discussions. Journal for Asynchronous Learning Networks, 8 (2). http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v8n2/v8n2_wu.asp

    Eggins, S., (1997). Analyzing casual conversation. Washington, DC: Cassell

    Alison JohnsonAlison Johnson on Monday, 08 December 2008, 10:29 GMT # |

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