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Transparency in Cooperative Online Education (Keywords: Online education;…
Transparency in Cooperative Online Education
Transparency = Insight into each other's actions
So that teachers' and students' ideas and works are made available as resources for each other
Keywords:
Online education; social networking; transparency; e-learning; cooperative learning; learning community
Cooperative learning:
support consciousness and awareness of the activities of others
Working on related projects without collaboration
Dilemma: Students who do not share/contribute
3 positive effects:
Preventive quality improvement
Constructive quality improvement
Reactive quality improvement
Privacy must be assured
CLIP = cooperative learner information profile
Used to let system find suitable learning partners
Social networking: Passive communication (i.e. Facebook - profile)
Subscriptions and notifications
Social software for organized education purposes are scarce
Personal tools as starting point for networking
NKI Distance Education
Scandinavia's largest provider of online studies, 14.000 students
Social network platform; SESAM.
CLIPS used in learning partner services. Optional levels of privacy
Cooperative gating (COGs).
Must complete task before gaining access to peer's works
Networks
Loosely organized, opposed to the tight-knit structure of group collaboration
weak ties, see
Siemens (2005)
Based on learning theories:
cooperate freedom
and
socio-cultural
theory
Cooperative as opposed to collabaorative, where latter means individuals contribute with a piece each to the final result. Sink or swim together
Cooperate freedom:
Voluntary, but attractive participation
Means promoting individual freedom
Means promoting affinity to learning community