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This web article published by Faculty Focus suggests that students are more willing to ask questions and interact with their fellow students in face to face settings if they have been offered the opportunity to engage through synchronous online tools. It then outlines reasons why these tools are beneficial for learning.

Now this was and is interesting. Thanks mr T

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No matter whether preparing material for the next lecture or major Project for your TEAP module having "stuff" online is useful. Hence this post might be a good and helpful guidance for you the way it was for me :)

A tool for keeping social bookmarks. Another one worth trying would be MENDELEY.

This paper published by The Open University looks at how social presence can be used to engage students with online learning. It outlines the benefits and problems of online communication for learning and then looks at the pros and cons of different online communication tools.

Website that provides Links to websites (by discipline) that contain a huge number of resources for Science teachers

Website that provides Links to websites (by discipline) that contain a huge number of resources for Science teachers

Would a certain stage of online communities building allow us to use Instagram? Having in mind that we are all different some of us who are visual types might even like a photo from time to time instead of several dozen lines of text.

Highlights * We explore factors affecting students' engagement with Moodle and Facebook. * Students were not interested in using Moodle, yet active on Facebook. * We use Activity Theory as a lens for data interpretation. * Factors are categorized as technological, individual, and community levels.

Hello there, Thanks for sharing this Ivan - good one I hope I can effectively operationalize some ideas. Thanks Z

Interesting! As are a number of the papers suggested afterwards which I will bookmark too! As an aside you may be interested in the paper Cass Business School students present to the Moodle Research Conference last year: http://research.moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=7&rid=124 One point of interest I'm keen to follow is the possible rise in more student-led studies (at City?) - in this case, both surveying students and by students. I'm also interested in how we could look more at involving learners in the design process.

Ratings on Moodle Forums - thought from TEAP and student feedback - use to allow non-verbal engagement with forum. Numerical rating possible at least - maybe can have a like, agree, disagree, good point etc rating? Adding more opportunity for the lurkers?

Annora, this is what I needed :) Thank you for sharing this resource about Moodle functionality.

Seemingly considerable resources to support use of multimedia in education. 

Paper presented at 2013 Moodle Research conference - part of final year undergraduate research at Cass. I think it's important to look at data directly from students. Can we make them real partners in the design and experience of courses?

A handy infographic looking at different methods of online research and gives a flowchart with different web search options.

Tools are always in demand. Sam, have you used any of proposed (less popular ones).

Having lived abroad (in the Middle East) I had experienced multicultural society. It is a question how effective might be growing a community virtually when physical contact would help overcome some hurdles. A food for thought., IvanS

About.com was there long time before I started working towards my Project. I did not understand how valuable their tips were then. Edited articles by experts short time between the idea and the way to accomplish it.

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