Socio-Technical Capital in Online Learning: A Preliminary Investigation
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Online learning is often supported by technologies that provide task-oriented groups such as classes or professional development teams with their own workspaces for interaction. This paper begins an exploration into the proposition that participants may benefit if they are not isolated from each other, but rather are enabled to discover persons and resources from contexts other than the original context to which they were assigned. The potential value that resides in technology-supported social networks has been called socio-technical capital. Our software, Prometheus, is being used to support online university level education and teacher professional development under an open community model inspired by this idea. The analysis reported in this paper tests whether people who come to the online environment for instrumental objectives such as taking a course encounter persons or products of others from outside their immediate workspace, and also seeks to identify how the various digital media available in Prometheus support these encounters. Results show distinct roles for each of discussions, resources, user profiles, and wiki pages, and point the way to further work.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008