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EduPunks and Learning Management Systems – Conflict or Chance?

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Hybrid Learning (ICHL 2011)

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The term Edupunk coined by Jim Groom defines a do-it-yourself concept of using the most recent Web tools available for teaching, instead of relying only on commercial learning platforms – it is the information, the content, the knowledge which matters. Technology itself does not make education valuable per se, it is the creation of individual knowledge which is of paramount importance. However, today, so much free technology is available, which can be used as hands-on tools to enhance learning and teaching of students. However, in this article, we demonstrate that such issues can also be included in a large university wide LMS, which has been developed at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) during the last years. The development was initiated by the necessity to emphasize and implement three crucial factors for learning: communication, active participation and social interaction. We assess the potential of current Web 2.0 technologies for implementing such factors. We show that the development process was not technology driven; on the contrary, end user requirements of all end user groups engaged into university learning (students, teachers and administrators) were thoroughly investigated and mapped onto functional components of the LMS. Finally, we provide an overview of the platform functionalities with an emphasis on Web 2.0 elements and EduPunk concepts.

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  1. Division of Social Learning, Graz University of Technology, Computing and Information Services, Graz, Austria

    Martin Ebner

  2. Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM), Graz University of Technology, Computing and Information Services, Graz, Austria

    Andreas Holzinger & Nick Scerbakov

  3. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, President’s Office HKSAR, China

    Philip Tsang

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    Reggie Kwan

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China

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  3. Centre for Cyber Learning, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Jeanne Lam

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Ebner, M., Holzinger, A., Scerbakov, N., Tsang, P. (2011). EduPunks and Learning Management Systems – Conflict or Chance?. In: Kwan, R., Fong, J., Kwok, Lf., Lam, J. (eds) Hybrid Learning. ICHL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6837. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22763-9_21

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