THE SNAP! PLATFORM: SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES, PEER LEARNING, AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICEKeith Kirkwood
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E-learning platforms are being reconceptualized. There is a move away from the repository-style LMS towards one of increased communicative and collaborative potential that empowers the learner and leverages the learning experience. At Victoria University, the SNAP! Platform is being designed to support peer exchange and collaboration in developing learning skills. This platform includes social networking communication and profiling, shared bookmarking, student mentor blogs and commentary, RSS feeds, tagging, and the creation of peer-generated learning resources. The SNAP! Platform hopes to establish self-generating academic learning communities of practice in which students learn to take an active and dominant role in their own and each other’s learning. |
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