EDUCAUSE | Collaboration, Virtual Community, and Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences

Research1: Developing an Online Community for the Sharing of Research

drupal — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:56:37 -0600

Research1 is an online community that allows researchers to collaborate with peers, share their work, and interact with the general public through project-related digital media, blogs, and forums. The presenter will describe the platform and invite members of the global research community to become involved in the initiative.

Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

The structure of the traditional term paper can limit its educational value. To make the assignment more meaningful, students published their papers in Wikipedia. This session will examine how publishing for a large online community motivated students to do better work and deal with issues of voice, knowledge, and community.

Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:30 -0600

Learning designs or "learning activity sequences" represent flows of collaborative activities that are authored and run by teachers. The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) is an open-source system that allows easy creation and sharing of sequences. This presentation will describe implementation of the global community sharing Web site for LAMS sequences.