Annotated bibliography - Transparency in Cooperative Online Education

Here Morten Flate speks aboute the SESAM 6 – NKI’s current LMS that was created to stimulate students and teachers to produce, share and refine cooperative learning resources. Now they add features to make it more transparent. The advantages of the transparency in the online education are many.

For Morten Flate the transparency supports quality and cooperation. The transparency issues are complex and hard to explain in a short blog entry. So, Morten Flate have ventured to introduce this views in the experimental and extremely succinct cartoon format.

In this cartoon we can see that transparency:

- Improves quality in online education;
---Work sharing between students and teachers allows:

• doing better work because we know others will see our work;
• others may find errors in information produced by us;
• we learn by seeing others' work;
• we get feedback if others see ours work.

- Promotes cooperation in online education;
--- people are more likely to cooperate if they see information about each other.

Contribution to the EDEN President's blog on July 1, 2008 by Morten Flate Paulsen

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