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Connection Enablers in Online Learning Community: From Informative Online Personae to Meaningful Social Space

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026348

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Building communities for online learners may ameliorate pervasive issues relating to learner retention and satisfaction. To move in this direction, we propose that educational technology infrastructures should make personal information about students more visible, so as to invite and encourage social interaction. We are exploring this "visibility proposition" through a design research project. In this paper we report part of our quantitative empirical work carried out to support the collection and visualization of student information (what we call online personae). This work points to an information framework for online personae for distance learners. We also discuss the design implications for helping distance learners to uncover meaningful but hidden connections within virtual learning communities.

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

February 2017

472 pages

ISBN:9781450346887

DOI:10.1145/3022198

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Sun NWang XRosson MBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)How Do Distance Learners Connect?Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300662(1-12)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
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Sun NRosson MCarroll JMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)Where is Community Among Online Learners?Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3173866(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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