Applying collaborative and e-learning tools to military distance learning: A research framework

Bonk, Curtis J.; Wisher, Robert A.

doi:10.1037/e446702006-001

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“…Oliver and Herrington (1995, p. 181) indicate that including collaboration in the design of an educational package, where students are required to engage in higher order thinking and reflection, affords 'clear educational advantage'. This view is evident in the works of other scholars who assert that the social phenomenon of community might be put to good use in the support of online learning (Bonk & Wisher, 2000;Hiltz, 1998;Palloff & Pratt, 1999). This assertion is well supported by theories of learning that highlight the importance of social interactions in the construction of knowledge (e.g.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 77%

“…It has long been suggested that sense of community is characterised by a phenomenon of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts (Hawley, 1950). These characteristics afford members clear advantage over non members, but it remains unclear in what ways these characteristics might be purposefully developed in online settings (Bonk & Wisher, 2000). It is clear however that the decision to join some communities and not others rests with the will of the individual (Tönnies, 1955).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Achieving synergies through generic skills: A strength of online communities

Clarkson

Brook

2007

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Educators are often torn between impositions of the institution in which they work and the imperatives of their individual courses or units and the impact this tension might have on student satisfaction with the learning experience. It is common to hear that students must graduate with multiple generic attributes or skills, yet these skills may not be within the gamut normally required in a specific undergraduate unit. This paper reports on an attempt to integrate both University sanctioned or top down generic skills and an instructor's organic or bottom up desirable skills in a multimedia unit at an Australian university, and the impact this has on student satisfaction. Specifically both asynchronous and synchronous tools were used to facilitate online community characteristics, in turn usable to foster the generic skills of collaboration, communication and problem solving. Results reveal synergies between the possibly divergent and potentially opposed goals of the university and the classroom. This paper demonstrates the ways that the conscious promotion of an online community to simultaneously assist achieving both the unit learning outcomes and prescribed generic skills, caused no evident conflict for student participants.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 77%

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

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Achieving synergies through generic skills: A strength of online communities

Clarkson

Brook

2007

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“…The Army has initiated a Science and Technology Objective in FY 2001 on "Training Tools for Web-Based Collaborative Environments" which will seek effective ways to train and measure performance using Web-based environments. The prospects for adapting the new genre of Web-based tools from educational to training applications has been reviewed in detail by Bonk and Wisher (2000). Some of the considerations discussed in that report are summarized here.…”

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Assessing and Measuring Training Performance 2000 Workshop

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Wampler²

2001

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“…During the last decade there has been intensive growth in collaborative technologies for online learning as well as work (Bonk & Wisher, 2000). As a result, there is increasing interest in how to establish and use virtual teams (ThoughtLink, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%