Lurking in Learning?

On social media, the idea of having ‘friends’ lingering around, reading and gossiping about your online behaviour  may be interpreted as not being appropriate. Even more without interacting back, without reacting by messaging back or simply liking your posts might seem awkard, non fitting for a person with the status of ‘friend’. 

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A Social View of Learning

Where the learning is taking place is important; in a class, at home, online, formal setting, informally etc. Recently many have been quoting findings showing that around 70% of an individual’s education occurs out of formal education. Brown mentions that learning occurs as an apprentice from activity and social interaction i.e. learning from the situation […]

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Collaboration: Are We Sure?

Collaboration as a much needed 21st competence Collaboration is one of competences which 21st century skills advocates put forward. This may be considered by policy makers, theorists and others as an obvious competence which learners should possess. It can be argued that to thrive in today’s society, citizens need to collaborate with other citizens, with […]

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