Frameworks for Understanding the Nature of Interactions, Networking, and Community in a Social Networking Site for Academic Practice

dc.creator	Grainne Conole
dc.creator	Rebecca Galley
dc.creator	Juliette Culver
dc.date	2011-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:40:52Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:40:52Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a765888f9c614c5f8e19a8391883d25b
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23316
dc.description	This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims to foster new forms of social and participatory practices (peer critiquing, sharing, user-generated content, aggregation, and personalisation) within an educational context. One of the key challenges in the development of the site has been to understand the user interactions and the changing patterns of user behaviour as it evolves. The paper explores the extent to which four frameworks that have been used in researching networked learning contexts can provide insights into the patterns of user behaviour that we see in Cloudworks. The paper considers this within the current debate about the new types of interactions, networking, and community being observed as users adapt to and appropriate new technologies.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/914/1666
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 12, Iss 3 (2011)
dc.subject	Cloudworks
dc.subject	social networking
dc.subject	Web 2.0
dc.subject	social and participatory web practices
dc.subject	frameworks
dc.subject	connectivism
dc.subject	actor-network theory
dc.subject	activity theory
dc.subject	communities of practice
dc.subject	communities of inquiry
dc.subject	design-based research
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Frameworks for Understanding the Nature of Interactions, Networking, and Community in a Social Networking Site for Academic Practice
dc.type	article