Please see the message below from Shailey Minocha at the Open University,
who is working on a JISC-funded social software case study project
They are calling for participation from colleagues/institutions in HE and FE
who have used social software tools either in their teaching, or for any
initiatives in their organisations that enhance learner engagement,
community-building and possibly student retention. Obviously any use by FE
LRCs would be included. If you might be interested, read on!
Best wishes,
Karl
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Karl Drinkwater
Ymgynghorydd E-ddysgu / E-learning Adviser
RSC Cymru / RSC Wales
http://www.netvibes.com/lrwales
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Effective Use of Social Software in Education
Are you using social software / web 2.0 tools with your students? For
example, social networking sites, blogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter
... ? If so, we would like to hear from you. We are most interested in
initiatives that have been running for some time (for example, more than
one semester) and those which include a reasonable number of students.
We are working on a project to commissioned by JISC to create case
studies of social software use in UK higher and further education. The
aim is to help the educational community explore the potential benefits
- and problems - of this new domain.
The case studies and project report will be disseminated via the JISC
web site in early 2009. These resources will be of significant interest
to the HE and FE community, and should attract a very wide readership.
If you think your practice might make a suitable case study, please
email Dave Roberts ([log in to unmask]) at the Open University, UK.
For further details of the project, please see:
http://tinyurl.com/5a8zu3
Many thanks & with kind regards,
Shailey Minocha, Karen Kear and Dave Roberts The Open University, UK
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