Session Information
06 SES 02, Sociocultural Activity and Sharing
Paper Session
Contribution
Web 2.0, or read-write Web, has changed the Internet behaviour pat- terns in general. Today’s social communications can no longer solely rely on face-to-face communications. consequently these way of communicate and exchange information has changed our way of teach and learn.
Downes, Siemens and other authors are referring to new type of e- learning in personalised, de-institutionalised and distributed learning en- vironment as to ’e-learning 2.0’.
The trust building and identity management in this kind of environ- ments is significantly different and understudied, in comparison with tra- ditional, closed, institutional Learning Management Systems.
In this context, it is important to understand people’s trust beliefs within this new emerging online social interactions and communications, to be able to truly provide a supportive e-learning community.
Trust building and identity management in those environments could provide learning environments which promotes social interactions and pre- vents isolation while catering for the individual and group differences and expectations.
In order to foster the understanding of trust’s influence in an online learning context, this project's main goal is to provide a better understand of how online social communications formed within the e-learning context, increases the human will to communicate, interact, cooperate and support each other as a community and therefore encourages the willingness to learn online.
This is due to the believe that by ensuring an adequate level of trust’s expectations among those mixed cultural and social online contexts, as well as distinct learning and working styles should provide a more efficient and effective integrated learning process and e-learning environment design model.
These worries are patent, nowadays, in online distance instruction design methodologies. These methodologies aims, more and more, to provide virtual learning environments which:
• Foster reliability;
• Facilitate interaction (both asynchronous and synchronous);
• Provide unobtrusive feedback mechanisms;
• Cater for users’ needs; and
• Promote trustful learning communities.
The trust building and identity management in this kind of environments is significantly different and understudied and just by providing online interactivity and knowledge is not be enough to provide self-directed learners.
Main aims to this problem includes:
• Analysing student’s online learning social interactions;
• Identify student’s trust expectations in those online social scenarios; and
• Understand the relation between student’ learning expectations and their trust’s beliefs towards learning.
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References
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