Building Online Learning Communities Using Web 2.0 Technologies

Virtual Brief Paper ID: 41769
  1. Mariam Abdelmalak
    NMSU,College of Education,Curriculum & Instruction Department.

Abstract: In this paper I describe how I use Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the development of a community of learners among graduate distant students and how students responded to the use of Web 2.0 tools and to what extent these tools assisted in developing a community of learners. Twitter, Skype, Google Documents, Blog, and Wiki were intentionally used in order to build online learning communities among students. An anonymous survey was used. The students indicated that using Google Documents, Twitter, Wiki, and blog gave them a sense of a learning community while using Skype did not give them a sense of a learning community. Google Documents and Wiki had the most impact on students’ sense of a learning community in the course.

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