scholarly journals Facilitating community building in learning networks through peer tutoring in ad hoc transient communities

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Kester ◽  
Peter B. Sloep ◽  
Peter Van Rosmalen ◽  
Francis Brouns ◽  
Malik Kone ◽  
...  
2011 ◽  
pp. 1265-1271
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
Sonia Frutos ◽  
Jiménez. Miguel

Open source communities are one of the most successful-- and least appreciated--examples of high-performance collaboration and community building on the Internet today. Open source communities began as loosely organized, ad-hoc communities of contributors from all over the world who shared an interest in meeting a common need. However, the organization of these communities has proven to be very flexible and capable of carrying out all kind of developments, ranging from minor projects to huge programs such as Apache (Höhn, & Herr, 2004; Mockus, Fielding, & Herbsleb, 2005).


2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
José Antonio García-Martínez ◽  
Graciela Herrera-Villalobos ◽  
Manuel Arturo Fallas-Vargas

Entender como aprenden los estudiantes en la actualidad es de vital importancia para la toma de decisiones. En este sentido, la incorporación de las TIC está modificando las dinámicas de enseñanza y aprendizaje tanto formales como no formales e informales. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar las interacciones a través de diferentes recursos tecnológicos que contribuyen a la formación de estudiantes universitarios. Los entornos personales de aprendizaje (PLE) son considerados como un entramado de herramientas, actividades, finalidades y conexiones que las personas utilizan para su aprendizaje. En este trabajo se retoman las redes personales de aprendizaje (PLN) como parte imprescindible de estos, destacando así el carácter social del aprendizaje. El estudio parte de un enfoque cuantitativo a través de un diseño no experimental y transaccional. La muestra (n=1187) fue seleccionada de forma probabilística y queda representada por estudiantes universitarios de los últimos años de todas las carreras de las Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). La recogida de datos se llevó a cabo a través de un cuestionario elaborado ad hoc. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes interactúan en mayor medida con los compañeros y el profesorado a través de la comunicación móvil y el correo electrónico. Destaca la escasa conexión con profesionales, así como el uso limitado de herramientas que permiten ampliar las redes de aprendizaje. Por otro lado, se han encontrado diferencias en las interacciones de acuerdo con el rendimiento académico, dejando entrever la importancia de enriquecer los PLE en general y las PLN en particular. Understanding how students are currently learning is of vital importance for the decision-making process. In that sense, the incorporation of ICT is modifying formal, non-formal and informal teaching and learning dynamics. This study’s objective is to analyse the interactions through different technological resources that contribute to the education of university students. The personal learning environments (PLE) are viewed as a set of tools, activities, aims and connections that people use in their learning process. In this paper, the personal learning networks (PLN) are taken up as an indispensable part of them, thus highlighting the social nature of the learning process. The study takes a quantitative approach through a non-experimental and transactional design. The sample (n=1187) was selected by strata in a probabilistic way and is represented by last year university students from all programs at the Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica). The data collection was carried out through an ad hoc developed questionnaire. The results demonstrate that the students interact with their classmates and teachers to a greater extent via mobile communication and email. It highlights the scarcity of connections to professionals as well as the utilization of tools through which learning networks are amplified. On the other hand, differences have been found in the interactions according to academic performance, pointing to the importance of enriching the PLE in general and the PLN in particular.


Author(s):  
Satu Tenhovirta ◽  
Tiina Korhonen ◽  
Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen ◽  
Kai Hakkarainen

AbstractThe present investigation examined cross-age peer tutoring in the context of organising a technology-enhanced STEAM project aimed at bringing elements of maker culture to a lower secondary school. We examined how 8th graders tutored 7th graders in programming skills. The participants were peer tutors (n = 15) studying in a technology-oriented class, along with their teachers (5) and the researchers (2). By interviewing the tutors, we studied skills that the tutors had experienced as being essential to overcoming the challenges encountered. To trace the tutors’ social support network and the sharing of expertise, we asked the participants to draw a personal social network map. Three key tutors were identified, whose centrality in the network was socially validated by the number of peer tutors seeking their advice. Two case studies of key tutors’ learning networks were carried out. The findings revealed that the tutors needed versatile technological, social, pedagogical, and reflective know-how in the project. It is concluded that cross-age peer tutoring provides significant support for implementing practices of making and STEAM education at school.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Maksymilian Bielecki ◽  
Olga Maria Piaskowska ◽  
Piotr F. Piesiewicz

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Wegerif

This paper argues that the social dimension is important to effectiveness of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALNs) and needs to be taken into account in the design of courses. Evidence from an ethnographic study of the Teaching and Learning Online (TLO) course offered by the Institute of Education Technology at the Open University is presented in support of this argument. This study found that individual success or failure on the course depended upon the extent to which students were able to cross a threshold from feeling like outsiders to feeling like insiders. Factors affecting the construction of a sense of community are drawn out from interviews with students. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to a situated model of learning as induction into a community of practice. Finally recommendations are made for the support of community building in the design of courses.


Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
Sonia Frutos ◽  
Jiménez. Miguel

Open source communities are one of the most successful-- and least appreciated--examples of high-performance collaboration and community building on the Internet today. Open source communities began as loosely organized, ad-hoc communities of contributors from all over the world who shared an interest in meeting a common need. However, the organization of these communities has proven to be very flexible and capable of carrying out all kind of developments, ranging from minor projects to huge programs such as Apache (Höhn, & Herr, 2004; Mockus, Fielding, & Herbsleb, 2005).


2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana J. Berlanga ◽  
Peter B. Sloep ◽  
Liesbeth Kester ◽  
Francis Brouns ◽  
Peter Van Rosmalen ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Giulia Savarese ◽  
Oreste Fasano ◽  
Monica Mollo ◽  
Nadia Pecoraro
Keyword(s):  

O estudo analisa a relação entre tutor e tutorado com deficiências no contexto universitário. A hipótese de pesquisa é que o método do tutoramento entre pares poderá facilitar a integração dos estudantes universitários com deficiências e que a compartilha dos problemas e as paritárias condições de partida do tutor e do tutorado ajude os mútuos processos de socialização. Vinte tutores preencheram um questionário elaborado ad hoc, e o corpus narrativo foi submetido a uma análise textual. Os resultados evidenciam o fato do peer tutoring ser uma metodologia idônea para o desenvolvimento de uma mútua relação de competências, no âmbito de uma relação afetiva e simétrica; isso permite ultrapassar a perspetiva assistencial relativa à deficiência, incita o tutorado a “ultrapassar a si próprio”, facilitando a sua aprendizagem e assim ativando a sua “zona de desenvolvimento proximal”.


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