Dr. J's Concordia University Chicago Educational Technology Blog


The Chicken or the Elgg? Developing a Socially Constructed Self-Paced Learning Environment

I’m giving a presentation at the 2008 Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning on the topic of socially constructed self-paced learning environments. In particular, I discuss the implementation of CMUOnet, an instance of the Elgg open source social application engine, for fostering organic, informal interaction among participants in an online self-paced professional development certificate program.The slides for the presentation are available here along with the links I reference.

If I am successful in recording the audio for my presentation, I’ll eventually add there here as well as on my edtech podcast.

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