Aligning learning at individual, small-group, and community levels when adopting Web 2.0 in education¶

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Description¶

The editorial identifies a recurring design challenge for educational Web 2.0 adoption: conventional educational structures (individual-outcome focus, grading systems, instruction traditions) conflict with Web 2.0's collective orientation. It frames "the fundamental tension in collaborative learning: how to align and integrate learning at the individual, small-group, and community levels." Adopters must design for all three levels simultaneously.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Educational designs must address individual, small-group, and community levels of learning together rather than focusing on individual outcomes alone

Constraints¶

• Systems of grading, traditions of instruction, and expectations of student development militate against the Web 2.0 goal of collective wisdom and social networking

Target Learners¶

• University students in courses adopting wikis, blogs, and other Web 2.0 tools

Target Learning Goals¶

• Collaborative knowledge building and social networking for learning

Related Strategies¶

• Three planes of learning in CSCL: individual, small-group, and community: the individual, small-group and community planes the strategy asks designers to align
• Model of collaborative knowledge building across interconnected planes: how knowledge building moves across those planes

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Key Sources¶

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