Description
Book Synopsis
- How can we design networked e-learning courses to ensure students participate in them and engage in quality learning outcomes?
- What happens in an e-learning course that is designed to foster group work and a sense of âcommunityâ?
- How can we research e-learning practice in ways that will enhance the processes of learning and teaching?
This book outlines approaches to networked e-learning course design that are underpinned by a belief that students learn best in these contexts when they are organised in groups and communities. As such, the book is one of the first to provide a detailed analysis of what goes on in e-learning groups and communities.
But how do students react to working in e-learning groups and communities? What determines their willingness to adopt new forms of learning in order to participate in these new courses? What actually happens in an e-learning community, and what impact does this have on students and tutors? This book examines
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Designing for e-groups and communities: theoretical and conceptual Issues
2 Design principles: a model
3 The experience of e-learning groups and communities
4 Assessing learning in e-groups and communities
5 Assessment: the view from inside
6 Problem-solving and action research in communities of practice
7 Group dynamics: a view from the inside
8 Understanding groups, communities and learning technologies
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