social not-working? evaluating an online learning community for higher education
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This presentation was around an evaluation run on the Edinburgh Napier Education Exchange, delivered at the International Conference for Elearning in Canada, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Social Not-working?Evaluating and building an online
learning community
Colin Gray & Keith Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University
The Edinburgh Napier Education Exchange
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Project Rationale
Workshop participants requiring continuing, long term support
Staff projects requiring a collaboration resource
Communication across school and faculty
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System Features
Blogging
Collaborative page creation
Groups
File sharing
Bookmarking
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Answer Count Percent
Discussion forums within groups 19 43.18%
Keeping up to date with teaching & learning activities currently happening within Edinburgh Napier.
17 38.64%
Providing a shared collaborative space for groups involving internal and external members
13 29.55%
Sharing education resources 12 27.27%
Other, please state: 11 25%
Use of the group tool as an online presence for projects or initiatives 10 22.73%
Admin file sharing (eg. project documents, policies, etc) 6 13.64%
Blogging 5 11.36%
Use of groups as an online presence for Teaching Fellows Special Interest Groups
5 11.36%
Media sharing (eg. images 3 6.82%
Creation of web pages 2 4.55%
Instant communication (eg. the wire or ENEE personal messages) 2 4.55%
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