Social Computing meets Online Learning

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Social Computing meets Online Learning

• Jim Laffey, PhD
• University of Missouri - Columbia

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Big Ideas

• Rapid advances in technology capabilities
• Dramatic transformation of our understanding of
  human learning
• Social computing and social learning

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• The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new
  landscapes but in having new eyes.
• Marcel Proust

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Social Computing

• Use of computers to mediate social activity
• messaging (email, chat, IM, etc.)
• sharing (music, photos, video, links, etc.)
• transactions (online shopping, banking, etc.)
• community (discussion, identity, etc.)

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Social Computing

• Use of sociological understanding to guide system
  design.
• How do we act together?
• Identity formation
• Accountability
• Places

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Social Learning
What is the social nature of learning?

• Motivation
• Modeling
• Navigation
• Development through social interaction
• Facilitation (team work)
• Social capital

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Social Learning
New eyes on learning!

• Learn through participation in valued practices
  of community
• Learning outcomes are found in the ability to
  contribute to the valued practices of community
• Learning outcomes are found in transformations of
  ones identity

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Online Social Learning
Design goals

• Presence and co-presence
• Social ability
• Embodiment
• Social Capital formation

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Online Social Learning
Principles of Design??

• Identity control and representation
• Awareness information (translucence)
• Structures for communication
• Process support for transactions
• Security and privacy (appropriate)

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Online Social Learning
Sakai CANS Application
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Online Social Learning
Sakai CANS Application
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Social Computing meets Online Learning

• Jim Laffey, PhD
• laffeyj_at_missouri.edu
• http//sislt.missouri.edu/