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Kear, Karen; Jones, Allan; Holden, Georgina; Curcher, Mark – Open Learning, 2016
Three exemplars are presented of social technologies deployed in educational contexts: wikis; a photo-sharing environment; and a social bookmarking tool. Students were found to engage with the technologies selectively, sometimes rejecting them, in the light of their prior conceptions of education. Some students (a minority in all the studies) were…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media, Social Influences
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Meishar-Tal, Hagit; Gorsky, Paul – Open Learning, 2010
We investigated the collaborative writing actions carried out by 60 Open University of Israel graduate students as they built a wiki glossary of key course concepts. These actions were analysed using a taxonomy of collaborative writing actions (i.e. adding, editing and deleting information) in order to find out what students do and what they do…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Activities, Collaborative Writing, Teaching Methods