What is the pedagogical potential of social networks to support learning on-line cooperative?
According to the article written by Paulson and Dalsgaard social networks are contributing to greater transparency between the students.
But what is this transparency in a course online?
Transparency, which is spoken here by the authors as the ability to have a virtual learning environment to meet / have access to the actions of other students / teachers and also the profile of the same. Everyone is aware that they have access to the interests, thoughts, concerns, ideas, texts, references and assignments of their classmates and teachers.
But how is this transparency? How does it contribute to the success of cooperative learning?
With this transparency students and teachers will be able to follow / read all the work that is done by their peers and teachers in virtual learning environment. Thus making available the participants as resources for their learning activities. It remindes me of a feature that I share with all my classmates: delicious. All sites that are important to me in all the activities of my master's degree or work, are stored in this tool. By keeping these sites on my delicious account I can help a colleague in their individual work. This is a central aspect of cooperative learning, I am deep in my individual freedom, but working with my colleagues. The tools of Web 2.0 come and contribute much to the application of the Theory of Freedom of cooperation. These are the tools and the development of virtual learning environments (created thinking on this theory for example: SESAM) that allow to successfully apply this learning.
One way to increase transparency can be through social networks? Is that right?.
Belonging to a social network each person has a profile page where you enter your personal details, their interests, their research, their publications, their area of interest, etc.. These pages will be constantly modified and updated by its users. Any person belonging to that social network, you can follow all the activities that are held by their colleagues. This imposes a share or indirect communication or passive. Social networks allow for transparency that the forums do not allow. For example in the forum who habitually use in our virtual learning environment no one is aware of what I have done lately, my interests, etc., but who goes through my facebook is to knows more about me and my activities in recent days.
All my colleagues have their blog and usually I get a notification whenever any of them make a change, so I know what they are doing, what activities are involved and so on. We can observe that there is a great pedagogical potential of social networks in relation to transparency. It is important to talk about transparency since it is particularly relevant in the context of cooperative learning, students are working on related projects, but there is no collaboration. The challenge of cooperative learning is there is a possibility of sharing of resources / work among different colleagues, and this would not be possible we take advantage of resources / each other's work.
For example: In one of the courses each student will translate, in a first step, a page of two articles in English into Portuguese language. After the translation has been done we gather all the parts together. After the first stage each student will make a reflection on the document in general. It is with the addition of each part translated, I'll hold my reflection. Thus making possible the existence of cooperative learning in this online activity.
A major problem in collaborative learning online is where cooperation is not voluntary. The success of an online cooperative learning depends on student interest in learning this way. It is not the teacher who requires the students to use this way of learning, but motivates, spay the interest of both teacher and students for it. Students are seen in a cooperative community, as the resources - in the sense that will contribute to the online learning community in some way.
Social networks and Web 2.0 tools have contributed to the implementation of cooperative learning in online learning.
June – 2009
Transparency in Cooperative Online Education
Christian Dalsgaard
Aarhus University, Denmark
Morten Flate Paulsen
The Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway
According to the article written by Paulson and Dalsgaard social networks are contributing to greater transparency between the students.
But what is this transparency in a course online?
Transparency, which is spoken here by the authors as the ability to have a virtual learning environment to meet / have access to the actions of other students / teachers and also the profile of the same. Everyone is aware that they have access to the interests, thoughts, concerns, ideas, texts, references and assignments of their classmates and teachers.
But how is this transparency? How does it contribute to the success of cooperative learning?
With this transparency students and teachers will be able to follow / read all the work that is done by their peers and teachers in virtual learning environment. Thus making available the participants as resources for their learning activities. It remindes me of a feature that I share with all my classmates: delicious. All sites that are important to me in all the activities of my master's degree or work, are stored in this tool. By keeping these sites on my delicious account I can help a colleague in their individual work. This is a central aspect of cooperative learning, I am deep in my individual freedom, but working with my colleagues. The tools of Web 2.0 come and contribute much to the application of the Theory of Freedom of cooperation. These are the tools and the development of virtual learning environments (created thinking on this theory for example: SESAM) that allow to successfully apply this learning.
One way to increase transparency can be through social networks? Is that right?.
Belonging to a social network each person has a profile page where you enter your personal details, their interests, their research, their publications, their area of interest, etc.. These pages will be constantly modified and updated by its users. Any person belonging to that social network, you can follow all the activities that are held by their colleagues. This imposes a share or indirect communication or passive. Social networks allow for transparency that the forums do not allow. For example in the forum who habitually use in our virtual learning environment no one is aware of what I have done lately, my interests, etc., but who goes through my facebook is to knows more about me and my activities in recent days.
All my colleagues have their blog and usually I get a notification whenever any of them make a change, so I know what they are doing, what activities are involved and so on. We can observe that there is a great pedagogical potential of social networks in relation to transparency. It is important to talk about transparency since it is particularly relevant in the context of cooperative learning, students are working on related projects, but there is no collaboration. The challenge of cooperative learning is there is a possibility of sharing of resources / work among different colleagues, and this would not be possible we take advantage of resources / each other's work.
For example: In one of the courses each student will translate, in a first step, a page of two articles in English into Portuguese language. After the translation has been done we gather all the parts together. After the first stage each student will make a reflection on the document in general. It is with the addition of each part translated, I'll hold my reflection. Thus making possible the existence of cooperative learning in this online activity.
A major problem in collaborative learning online is where cooperation is not voluntary. The success of an online cooperative learning depends on student interest in learning this way. It is not the teacher who requires the students to use this way of learning, but motivates, spay the interest of both teacher and students for it. Students are seen in a cooperative community, as the resources - in the sense that will contribute to the online learning community in some way.
Social networks and Web 2.0 tools have contributed to the implementation of cooperative learning in online learning.
June – 2009
Transparency in Cooperative Online Education
Christian Dalsgaard
Aarhus University, Denmark
Morten Flate Paulsen
The Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway
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