Knowledge Media Tools to Foster Social Learning

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Author(s): Alexandra Okada (The Open University, UK), Simon Buckingham Shum (The Open University, UK), Michelle Bachler (The Open University, UK), Eleftheria Tomadaki (The Open University, UK), Peter Scott (The Open University, UK), Alex Little (The Open University, UK)and Marc Eisenstadt (The Open University, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stylianos Hatzipanagos (King’s College London, UK)and Steven Warburton (King’s College London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-208-4.ch024

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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The aim of this chapter is to overview the ways in which knowledge media technologies create opportunities for social learning. The Open Content movement has been growing rapidly, opening up new opportunities for widening participation. One of the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives is the OpenLearn project, launched by the Open University, which integrates three knowledge media technologies: Compendium, FM and MSG. In this chapter, the authors analyse some examples, which show how these tools can be used to foster open sensemaking communities by mapping knowledge, location and virtual interactions. At the end, they present some questions and future horizons related to this research.

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