Retrieved from a post of Nicolas Balacheff on the SOA scientific portal on September the 25th, 2009
Moving "away from managing generic individual networks to managing contextual shared spaces", Graaasp seems to be a smart tool to shape a learning community, be it in TEL or in an other domain. If I understand well, its key characteristic is the richness of the support to social interactions on top of content, the proactive support to establishing links and the dynamic of the roles within the community.
Reading a scenario of use of Graaasp, I wondered what would be the specific added value of this environment for a researcher in TEL. I came to thinking that it is not its versatility in resonance with a young domain which rapidly change, move, evolve. It is not its openness to the variety of disciplines and competences in a multidisciplinary domain. It might be its capacity to dynamically create a common knowledge base as a side effect, if I may say so, of the creation of trusted community and working groups. Indeed, there are other domains which are young, not well established and multidisciplinary. But I wonder whether there are other domains in which there is so little agreement on the theoretical and methodological frameworks, uncertainty on what is known and accepted, reluctance to build a common knowledge base -- if not sometimes a serious doubt about he fact that there can be "results" in a scientific sense in TEL.
We know how to build FAQ from the analysis of a flow of questions and answers, can we build a knowledge base from the analysis of the queries of the students and the feedback and support from knowledgeable others -- supervisors, senior researchers or peers? Would Graaasp be instrumental in doing that? If so, I would see it as a fully Science 2.0 infrastructure, what is more than being a software supporting the construction and shaping a community from a social perspective.
A note after the reading of: Gillet D., El Helou S., Joubert M., Sutherland R. (2009) Science 2.0: Supporting a Doctoral Community of Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning using Social Software. Science2.0 for TEL Workshop. EC-TEL
Moving "away from managing generic individual networks to managing contextual shared spaces", Graaasp seems to be a smart tool to shape a learning community, be it in TEL or in an other domain. If I understand well, its key characteristic is the richness of the support to social interactions on top of content, the proactive support to establishing links and the dynamic of the roles within the community.
Reading a scenario of use of Graaasp, I wondered what would be the specific added value of this environment for a researcher in TEL. I came to thinking that it is not its versatility in resonance with a young domain which rapidly change, move, evolve. It is not its openness to the variety of disciplines and competences in a multidisciplinary domain. It might be its capacity to dynamically create a common knowledge base as a side effect, if I may say so, of the creation of trusted community and working groups. Indeed, there are other domains which are young, not well established and multidisciplinary. But I wonder whether there are other domains in which there is so little agreement on the theoretical and methodological frameworks, uncertainty on what is known and accepted, reluctance to build a common knowledge base -- if not sometimes a serious doubt about he fact that there can be "results" in a scientific sense in TEL.
We know how to build FAQ from the analysis of a flow of questions and answers, can we build a knowledge base from the analysis of the queries of the students and the feedback and support from knowledgeable others -- supervisors, senior researchers or peers? Would Graaasp be instrumental in doing that? If so, I would see it as a fully Science 2.0 infrastructure, what is more than being a software supporting the construction and shaping a community from a social perspective.
A note after the reading of: Gillet D., El Helou S., Joubert M., Sutherland R. (2009) Science 2.0: Supporting a Doctoral Community of Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning using Social Software. Science2.0 for TEL Workshop. EC-TEL
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