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Designing Social Media for Informal Learning and Knowledge Maturing in the Digital Workplace
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Ravenscroft, A.; Schmidt, A.; Cook, J.; Bradley, C. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
This paper presents an original approach to designing social media that support informal learning in the digital workplace. It adapts design-based research to take into account the embeddedness of interactions within digitally mediated work-based contexts. The approach is demonstrated through the design, implementation, and evaluation of software…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Formative Evaluation, Methods, Organizational Development
Creating User-Generated Content for Location-Based Learning: An Authoring Framework
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FitzGerald, E. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
Two recent emerging trends are that of Web 2.0, where users actively create content and publish it on the Web, and also location awareness, where a digital device utilizes a person's physical location as the context to provide specific services and/or information. This paper examines how these two phenomena can be brought together so that…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Informal Education, Knowledge Level, Interaction
The Questionable Promise of Social Media for Education: Connective Learning and the Commercial Imperative
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Friesen, N.; Lowe, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
Facebook and other social media have been hailed as delivering the promise of new, socially engaged educational experiences for students in undergraduate, self-directed, and other educational sectors. A theoretical and historical analysis of these media in the light of earlier media transformations, however, helps to situate and qualify this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Electronic Learning, Television