Emma Duke-Williams
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School of Computing / Faculty eLearning Coordinator
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>>> Alejandro Chiner Arias <[log in to unmask]> 05/05/09 7:21 PM >>>
We know from experience it is not enough to set up the system or tool, e.g.
social software. If the initiative is not to fall flat, users need somehow
to be attracted and enthused, so that they engage in the community, become
part of it and make it come to life and live on. The question is how and it
applies not only to the educational VLE .
My reply (sorry, I'm using Webmail & it doesn't put the >> in properly!)
I'm taking it that you've already read things like Gilly Salmon's E-moderating etc.
( http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IBf0ZqgHhP8C&dq=Gilly+Salmon&printsec=frontcover&source=an&hl=en&ei=kIcASuieEsaZjAfp_O34Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5 )
and that you're looking for more?
I'd say that it's part of what you have already identified - how to ensure that your users are "attracted" & "enthused". As with a face to face class, a great teacher can make the most boring subject fascinating, while a dire teacher can make the more interesting class as deadly as anything.
So, I'd say that the tools are 1%; the teacher's the other 99%. The challenge is to help those teachers best use the tools; to give them tools that suit their teaching habits; to give them ideas to develop activities that will grab their learners - and enable the group to develop a life of its own.
Emma
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