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Direct linkHodgson, 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
Difference-Sensitive Communities, Networked Learning, and Higher Education: Potentialities and Risks
Papastephanou, Marianna – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
Recent emphases on prospects for difference-sensitive virtual communities rely implicity or explicity on some optimist accounts of cyberspace and globalization. It is expected that hybridity, diaspora and fluidity, marking new understandings of spatiality and temporality in a globalized postmodern era, will create new forms of belonging that will…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Postmodernism, Computer Networks
Fox, Steve – Studies in Higher Education, 2005
The article provides an actor-network critique of ideas on community that are influential in higher education and draws implications for networked learning theory and practice. Networked learning is examined as an educational movement which contains alternative models of learning but which offers to create a sense of virtual community within the…
Descriptors: Models, Learning Theories, Higher Education, Criticism
