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A Selective Analysis of Empirical Findings in Networked Learning Research in Higher Education: Questing for Coherence
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de Laat, Maarten; Lally, Victor; Simons, Robert-Jan; Wenger, Etienne – Educational Research Review, 2006
In this paper, we have attempted two ambitious tasks. We have undertaken a wide-ranging survey of the Network learning (NL) literature, and tried to identify the emerging themes of this work. We have selected three of these themes, and in each case tried to identify the main theoretical perspectives in use, the main directions of the studies, and…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Information Networks, Social Networks, Learning Processes
Consensus, Difference and "Multiple Communities" in Networked Learning
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Hodgson, Vivien; Reynolds, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
The article reviews the popularity in networked learning designs for values of collaboration, and in particular, of community. Examples of this are drawn from the networked learning literature, highlighting corresponding arguments for networked learning providing the basis for a more democratic ethos within higher educational programmes. The…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Processes, Computer Networks, Higher Education
Language Teaching and Networking.
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Peterson, Mark – System, 1997
Discusses the impact of computer networking on foreign language teaching and focuses on the competing claims made regarding the value of network-based language learning activity. A description of how internet-based activities operate in the classroom is included. (24 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks