Building an Online Learning Community
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The document discusses building an online learning community. It defines an online learning community as a destination on the internet that facilitates peer-to-peer learning to achieve shared learning objectives. Benefits of an online learning community include supporting borderless education, distance learning, enhancing the social and collaborative learning experience, and building professional learning communities. Within an online learning community, members communicate, collaborate, engage in cooperative discovery and sharing of content and knowledge. A variety of tools can be used to build an online learning community, including blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and learning management systems. It is important to nurture and maintain an online learning community over time through personal engagement, clear guidelines, self-moderation, and encouraging participation without
Building an Online Learning Community
- 1. Building an Online Learning CommunityJane HartSchoolNet ConferenceSouth AfricaJuly 2011
- 2. AgendaWhat is an Online Learning Community?What happens in an Online Learning Community?What tools can be used to build an Online Learning Community?How do you maintain and sustain an Online Learning Community?
- 3. What is an Online Learning Community?“An online learning community is a public or private destination on the Internet that addresses the learning needs of its members by facilitating peer-to-peer learning. … people work as a community to achieve a shared learning objective.” Wikipedia
- 4. If your classroom is a Learning Communitywhy have anOnline Learning Community?
- 7. To support in-class learning
- 8. To support learning outside the classroom
- 9. to enhance thesocial and collaborativelearning experience
- 10. To build a Professional Learning CommunityA professional learning community (PLC) is an extended learning opportunity to foster collaborative learning among colleagues within a particular work environment or fieldA Community of Practice
- 11. What happens in an Online Learning Community?CommunicationConversations
- 12. What happens in an Online Learning Community?Collaboration
- 13. What happens in an Online Learning Community?Collaborative discovery
- 14. What happens in an Online Learning Community?Content / KnowledgeCo-creation
- 15. What happens in an Online Learning Community?Sharing
- 16. What happens in an Online Learning Community?All within a comfortable, safe easy-to-use environment
- 17. What tools can be used to build an Online Learning Community?Many different tools Most appropriate will depend on functionalityintegration of content and communitymanagement and controlsecurity and privacy
- 18. Top 100Tools for Learning 2010List compiled from the Top 10 Tools contributions of 545learning professionals worldwide
- 19. What tools can be used to build an Online Learning Community?Individual toolsBlogsCollaboration tools (eg wikis)Public & private social networking sitesSocial learning platformsOrganisational toolsCourse management toolsSocial and collaboration platformsEXAMPLESFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 20. http://grade1cr.global2.vic.edu.au1 BlogsFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 22. 2 Collaboration tools (eg Wikis)FunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 24. 3 Public and private social networking toolsFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 26. FunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 27. Profile pageincludes blog, file sharingSub-groupsMembers listChatDiscussion
- 28. 4 Formal Social Learning PlatformsFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 29. 5 Course Management SystemsFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
- 30. 6 Social and collaboration platformsFunctionalityEase of useTarget audiencePrivacyManagementControl
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- 32. How do you maintain and sustain an Online Learning Community?“Communities don’t want to be managed – they want to be nurtured.” “Seed, feed and weed”
- 33. Jane’s 10 tips for setting up an Online Learning Community?Provide a personal rather than a generic welcomeIdentify the value an individual will bring to the community – particularly from “outsiders”.Provide tips and guidelines for the community – keep “rules” to a minimum – consider community-generated rules. Be clear about its purpose.Allow self-moderation of community – don’t always be the one to express concern – but “respect” views.In the early days, provide regular postings: questions rather than statements work best. Demonstrate good practice. Encourage sharing of links, resources, ideas, experiences etc.As the community becomes self-sustaining, reduce your presence Remember the 90-9-1 rule ; encourage participation but don’t under-estimate the value of “lurking”Don’t try and force “social”Don’t use social activity metrics as a measure of learning.