Social Spaces of Learning

2015

Social media has been used effectively for teaching and learning for many years in developed countries. It seems there needs to be an understanding of the affordances that social media could bring to the learning space in the African context. We use qualitative research and content analysis to see how and why the learners used social media in a private Higher Educational (HE) institution in South Africa to enhance their learning experience. The course was split into face-to-face lectures and social media use by the learners and facilitators. The learners were required to engage with various social media tools to collaborate and share skills with their classmates and facilitators. We also explore the affordance of social media. Content analysis was done to see the participation of the learners in the course’s Facebook page. Data was also collected from the focus groups that led to findings that indicate that WEB 2.0 tools had the potential to support learner collaboration that is sel...

International Journal of the Book

The evolution of teaching and learning spaces from physical spaces to incorporate digital/virtual spaces is a phenomenon now accepted as commonplace. In rich multi-modal teaching and learning environments we consider how digital resources have impacted the role of educators in defining their own role, and the resources utilised to supplement online education with a social presence reminiscent of a classroom experience. Using the conceptual framework for e-learning posed by Garrison and Anderson (2003) we consider the place of text based books alongside a diversity of resources, in a process that no longer privileges the printed book and yet retains it, in an increasingly marginalised position, in the higher education sector.

2016

This symposium presents our efforts to reconceptualize learning spaces from their traditional notions as bound and immutable to a view in which the physical and social boundaries are flexible and dynamically connected to the learning itself. We present the work from five international research centers that consider space as a multi-dimensional mediational tool that shapes, and is shaped by, the learning communities who use them. In each case, researchers will present their innovative spaces along with the learning community frameworks they use to describe and design them. Each study demonstrates specific insights regarding how to conceptualize and design Future Learning Spaces for Learning Communities.

2020

The aim of the study is to understand the role of social presence in digitally mediated learning processes and, consequently, to improve the design of the courses we teach at UNED. The spaces of greatest interaction between students are social networks and mobile instant messaging services, not only for social purposes but also for learning. That is why we are researching about students’ practices in those spaces while they are studying. In this paper, we present preliminary findings identifying if those social interactions happen within the online courses or in other digital spaces.

Relay Journal, 2018

This paper is a brief summary of an ethnographic research project currently in progress. Although the authors plan to present multiple papers based on the research, this paper has been written with the purpose of documenting progress so far. The main aims are to keep colleagues informed and to ensure that all of the steps are recorded to aid future dissemination of the findings. The authors summarize a project which started in June 2017 and will continue for several years observing student behaviors occurring in one social learning space in the Self-Access Learning Center (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS).

IADIS International Conference e- …, 2006

Highly complex learning communities where diverse participants collaborate to achieve multiple aims through synergy have the potential to be highly creative and productive. However the diversity and multiple aims can also mean the advantages of a community -share understand, trust and direction -are difficult to achieve, resulting in few if any of the aims being realised. We review two case studies, where the learning community is trying to achieve multiple aims, in order to explore how virtual and physical space are employed to support collaborative learning and enhance synergistic potential. The analysis shows that high levels of diversity have influenced these spaces and trends towards differentiation and holistically designed hybrid, virtual and physical, collaboration space. The characteristics of theses cases are sufficiently general to lead us to draw insights for the building of collaborative space in multi-purpose complex learning communities. These are equably applicable to learning communities which share features such as heterogeneity, multiple locations or a mixture of spaces.

2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2015

this article presents a new training model that uses social networks integrated in a Moodle environment through a plug-in called Glesone. The plug-in is a piece of software built to provide the moodle platform with possibilities of facebook-style comments. This feature, more than solely appearance, allows the possibility to evolve from virtual learning environments to social networks of learning. This change implies several methodological considerations organized in a reference model. The software is used in an Ecuadorian university. In this paper, some results are presented and as an early conclusion we found that comments per theme format offer the most suitable learning environment due to the organization and structure of the content and the class.

2023

The view presented in this essay is that voluntary confession constitutes a form of post-offence behaviour that should be considered as a functional equivalent of the duty to bear the punitive reaction, to the extent that this reaction is defined as an expression of deserved censure. From this perspective, it is possible to arrive at a coherent explanation of the requirements of this approach, namely the conditions required by legislators to mitigate punishment by virtue of a confession, and, as a result, define its scope of application with greater precision. https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748920717/goettingen-handbook-on-latin-american-public-law-and-criminal-justice?hitid=150&search-click

2020

Resumen: El propósito de la Atención Temprana es ofrecer un servicio de calidad para el máximo desarrollo y autonomía de los niños y abogar por la calidad de vida y el bienestar familiar. El modelo actual de intervención se identifica con las prácticas centradas en la familia, basadas en la construcción de capacidades familiares, donde los profesionales deben actuar como colaboradores para dar respuesta a las necesidades de los progenitores. Este artículo pretende realizar una revisión sistematizada de la literatura, para analizar las investigaciones empíricas en el campo de la Atención Temprana desde el año 2000 e identificar aspectos que inducen a nuevas investigaciones. Se hallaron y analizaron un total de 33 artículos. Los resultados muestran que, a pesar de que se lleve a cabo el modelo centrado en la familia, hay obstáculos para desempeñar prácticas participativas, ya que implican la modificación de los apoyos profesionales y, al mismo tiempo, cambios en el protagonismo de la ...