Constructing Place: The Relationship between PlaceMaking and Sociability in Networked Environments

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Conditions for Productive Learning in Network
Learning Environments Conceptualising case
studies What the important elements are Marisa
Ponti, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld,, Berner
Lindström, Brian Møller Svendsen E-Learning
Lab, Department of Communication, Aalborg
University, Denmark IT-University of
Gothenburg, Sweden lone_at_hum.aau.dk,
marisa.ponti_at_ituniv.se, berner.lindstrom_at_ped.gu.se
, brianms_at_hum.aau.dk CSCL SIG Symposium,
Lausanne, October 7, 2004
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A premise

• Little impact of learning theories on the design
  of networked environments

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Our Purpose

• Informing design meant as taking the system, its
  user, and the context all together (Winograd,
  1996)

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Interpretive Research
Context
Learning process
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Ten Case Studies

• Methodologies e.g.,
• Ethnography
• Virtual ethnography
• Discourse analysis

• Methods e.g.,
• Logging
• Questionnaires
• Interviews
• Focus groups

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The Square of Productive Learning
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Elements of a Networked Learning
Environment