So what did I learn or what was reinforced?
A loose-knit online learning community can scale to many participants and remain effective.
Only a small percentage ~10% of members will be active.
Wikis need to be extremely focused on real tasks/projects in order to be adopted.
If facilitators can seed good questions and provide feedback, then conversations can flourish.
Use a very gentle hand in controlling the learners and some will become highly participative.
Design for after the course, using tools like social bookmarks, so that artifacts can be used for reference or performance support.
Create the role of “synthesizer”. I found it quite helpful when Tony and Michele summarized the previous week’s activities.
Keep the structure loose enough so that it can grow or change according to the needs of the community
