Friday, October 28
11:35-11:55 AM
UTC
Junior Ballroom C

Weaving Together Online and Face-to-face Learning: A Design from a Communities of Practice Perspective

Best Practices Session ID: 14700
  1. John Smith
    CPsquare
  2. Beverly Trayner
    Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais

Abstract: Weaving together online and face-to-face learning improves the quality of working in both media. Based on the observations of nine different experiments that went through a similar process of weaving together these two media we share our observations of outcomes and an evolving design framework from a community of practice perspective. Arguing that weaving participation using different media in succession is different from blended or hybrid learning, we suggest that careful design of an online ramp-up can make a face-to-face event more potent, and the subsequent online collaboration more productive. Key elements of this design process are inclusion, interaction, and social structure designed for the negotiation of meaning. We offer heuristics that help trace the threads from first online contact to the development of productive relationships at later phases in an emerging community of practice.

Presider: Chang Tik Chan, INTI College Malaysia

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