This is a planning and organizing tool that can be used by a group. It synchs up with Google calendar and all members of the group can list tasks, add dates and check off completed items. I have had students use this with success when doing group marketing projects.

This is the original paper from this group of scholars. There is 2009 edition and also a book that continues the conversation that was published in 2015. Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., and Weigel, M. (2006) Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st Century. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved https://www.macfound.org/media/article_pdfs/JENKINS_WHITE_PAPER.PDF

This is the U.S. national education technology plan. 101 pages with lengthy bibliography after each section. Currently there is no Congress mandated plan scheduled so this plan will be relevant for awhile. Office of Educational Technology, U.S Department of Education (2016). Future ready learning: Reimaging the role of technology in education. Retrieved from http://tech.ed.gov/files/2015/12/NETP16.pdf

Lengthy discussion of connectivism as a instructional theory as opposed to a learning theory.

29 students of MOOCs were interviewed to explore their engagement in the course.

Guy Merchant looks at learning through participation in online communities that might be able to be described as communities of practices or affinity spaces.

Article on screencapture of 3D video games that clearly show Lave & Wenge's community, domain and practice.The authors use quantitative analysis to show the stabilization of a creative community.

A. McAuley, B. Stewart, G. Siemens and D. Cormier are the authors of a report on MOOCs and the Digital Economy. Besides the print report, there are four videos of different segment of the report.

This is a case study of a six week MOOC on mobile learning. This case study focuses on connectivist learning inside an open course that is self-organizing. And includes internal diversity, internal redunacny, neighbor interaction and decentralized control.

This is an occasional paper from the MacArthur foundation with Henry Jenkins as the lead author. It looks at the necessary skills to be a contributing member of the participatory culture. These necessary skills include distributed cognition, collective intelligence, transmedia navigation and networking.

While not based on technology, the article by Mark Granovetter published in 1973 looks at social networks where diffusion of information is not based on strong ties but rather weak ties. The paper suggests that information is diffused further through the strength of a person's weak ties. We may see this also through social media.

Thought piece by Dr. Lisa Dawley published in 2009 in On The Horizon. This publication dealt with social learning in the virtual world Second Life but can be applied on other online learning communities. What is especially useful is the social network knowledge construction matrix that cover five degrees of involvement in the learning community. These levels are identifying the network, lurking, contributing, creating and leading.

You'll need to extrapolate a bit to take it from business to the classroom. But it's a site I check on a daily basis