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I am not saying that Wikipedia is the be-all-end-all of research sites; rather it is the start-all, if you will, a place to go to find primary and secondary research sources. It is community collaboration that allows users to make contributions to what are perceived to be “fact.
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I am not saying that Wikipedia is the be-all-end-all of research sites; rather it is the start-all, if you will, a place to go to find primary and secondary research sources. It is community collaboration that allows users to make contributions to what are perceived to be “fact.”
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the more that average folks and scholars contribute to an article, the more likely it is to eventually represent the “truth.”
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Distance education students can benefit from more meaningful interactions with faculty and fellow students, keep students actively engaging with the campus, and provide more access to campus services, thereby creating a more supportive culture for distance learners (Lester and Perini, 2010, p. 75).
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we are talking not just about collaborative learning but about fostering a learning community among distance learners, a practice that has demonstrated higher levels of student satisfaction and course completion among online learners (Rovai, 2002).
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online instructors should not be blinded by the uniqueness or newness of a tool and integrate it just because it is cool. (I call this SRBS — Shiny Red Button Syndrome.)
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Courses still benefit from a clear design strategy even if that design is exploratory in nature. Johnson (2011) also demonstrates that in the activity system that develops with tool use there are always “tensions” (Barab et al., 2003) or “contradictions” (Murphy & Rodriguez-Manzanares, 2008) that must be mediated – i.e., students should not find the technology a barrier to learning. Rather, it should be seamless with their learning activity and engagement.