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Review4.pdf (Objet application/pdf) On-line communities - ALT_Wiki. Initial Authors Frank Rennie and Mike Keppell Background The term ‘virtual communities’ has increasingly been applied to communication networks in which the participants focussed on a common topic are not located in the same geographical place, but are distributed across the globe. Unfortunately the term seems to have almost as many definitions and descriptions as the ‘traditional’ communities of place, and arguments still emerge as to what is and is not an online community. Yet it is important that we have at least a clear working definition, even if we amend or reject this subsequently.

Definitions At the very least then, a community seems to be distinguished by a shared understanding of its boundaries, whether these are geographical, or defined by particular areas of common interest. . • “People, who act socially as they strive to satisfy their own needs or perform special roles, such as leading or moderating. Findings from research Implications for practice Trust and the common bond Kim, A. Contents. Busuu got smarter with the MyBusuu Study Guide.

Busuu launched a new interesting feature for their premium subscribers last week, called the MyBusuu Study Guide. This feature is developed in partnership with the Salzburg Research Institute and lets students set their personal study goals and track the progress over time. Also, the tests at the end of each section got a refresh and will now adapt the questions to the mistakes the learner had made during the sections.

I think, this is again a very clever move of the Busuu team. One of the biggest drawbacks in learning online, self paced or with a teacher, up to now is on the one hand the lack of standards and measuring the progress and on the other hand the needed adjustments of the curriculum to the individual learner’s progress. Busuu’s new system is covering most of those issues plus it provides the learner with a certification at the end of each section. With MyBusuu you can: Related Links: Happy New Year with 10% off promotion and our new MyBusuu Study Guide! Siemens.

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To download the PDF, click the Download link above. Fullscreen Fullscreen Off Refbacks There are currently no refbacks. RUSC. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Spain Attribution 3.0 licence. Vol. 8, n.º 1 (enero 2011) Research on Social Network Sites. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Imagining Twitter_AG_Sep1_2010_final.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Barry Wellman's Publications. NetLab is an interdisciplinary scholarly network studying the intersection of social networks, communication networks, and computer networks.

Centered at the University of Toronto, NetLab members have come from across Canada and the United States as well as from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. NetLab has developed since 2000 from an informal network of collaborators into a far-flung virtual laboratory. Its research focuses on the interplay between social and technological links, including the understanding of social capital in job searches and business settings, new media and community, Internet and personal relations, social media, households, networked organizations, and knowledge transfer in research networks. Where to find NetLab: NetLab43.665016, -79.399325NetLabUniversity of TorontoiSchool140 St. Online interaction and communities_ Grainne Conole. Communauté en ligne d’apprentissage et de pratique ( Cl@P ): une méthodologie pour la collaboration à distance - Nicolas Michinov.

Nous sommes aujourd’hui entrés dans une société cognitive où les informations, connaissances et savoirs connaissent un développement sans précédent grâce aux réseaux de communication électroniques. Depuis plusieurs années, le développement exponentiel des connaissances rend utopique la volonté de vouloir tout connaître (et donc enseigner) dans un domaine. On assiste par conséquent à une spécialisation des compétences, lesquelles sont nécessairement distribuées dans des lieux géographiquement éloignés. De la même façon, les systèmes d’informations rendent accessibles d’un simple "clic" de souris une vaste quantité d’informations qu’une seule personne ne peut s’approprier, c’est-à-dire transformer en connaissances. Bien que difficile à définir de manière consensuelle, la notion de collaboration renvoie à la fois à un processus et à un résultat. Force est de constater que les réseaux technologiques sont aussi et surtout des réseaux humains avec leurs atouts et leurs faiblesses.

#Lift10 : Communautés en ligne, des outils pour structurer  Livemocha as an online language-learning community (01/2009) - CALICO. GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Livemocha system supports an interactive online community where the power of social networking drives the learning community (see Figure 1). Members of the online community benefit from free language lessons, membership in a diverse community, online chat, and access to motivational tools to keep the language learners on track in learning one or more languages.

The Livemocha system is an e-learning Web 2.0 startup founded by a group of experienced and successful entrepreneurs based in the Seattle area and launched at the end of September 2007. This community is a first of its kind web-based language-learning solution integrating online instructional content with a global community of language learners. The software is available with support in 11 popular languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Icelandic, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian. 1.

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