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Many online courses now require students to collaborate, but we know that just putting people together in the same space isn’t enough? What should a tutor do to prepare students for collaborative tasks?
Gilly Salmon’s 5-stage model provides very good guidelines on how to prepare for collaborative tasks online. These are usually designed into Stage 4 of [...]

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There has been some criticism that SD and GS are taking an evangelistic approach to connectivism. I have some sympathy with this. I would like to see more appreciation of the possible pitfalls of connectivism. If people ask me how I approach teaching and learning, I usually say that I favour a social constructivist approach [...]

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An interesting and helpful presentation by gsiemens.  Key points for me

constructivism doesn’t quite fit the bill any more in providing a theory for learning (I’ll have to think about this)
connectivism may more accurately describe learning in the 21st century
learning can now be thought of as forming new networks. In the past education has viewed knowledge [...]

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