A. T. Wyatt's List: research_ideas

This post outlines an interesting research project.

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chris sessums social network community of practice research topic on 2008-06-07 and saved by 12 people

A book that reviews current research on stages of epistemic cognition--where students move from viewing knowledge as concrete and absolute to more ambiguous, flexible and collaborative.

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Report from JISC on effective use of social software to support student learning and engagement.

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Article on ipods and hearing loss. Mentions some interesting research. This could be a resource for an interesting student research project.

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earphones ear buds ipod hearing loss project student research csc1305 csc3315 on 2009-02-21

Community of practice--see Wenger citation to define community of practice.

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Death of the VLE post. Points (see comments also) worth thinking about.

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Call for papers. Read the descriptions for the different strands.\n\nAcademic identity:\n * Fragmentation, specialisation and new work contracts - can we even argue that an 'academic identity' still exists?\n * Exploring and performing identity - can we do this through our writing, teaching and research? Should we?\n * Where is the locus of identity development?\n * Academic values and contested practices - what enables or inhibits the construction of a meaningful identity?\n\nLearner identity\n * How do our students establish positive academic identities?\n * Where in the contemporary university do learners develop their academic voice?\n * Multiple roles = multiple identities?\n * Do we know the cost of identities unrealised?\n\nVirtual identity\n * What does virtuality contribute to how we construct our selves?\n * Can the successful academic exist outside of the virtual?\n * Are students really digital natives?\n * Do our 'real' selves learn from our virtual selves?\n * How do we know who we're talking to, and how does this influence our practices?\n\nLeadership and management identity\n * What is a leadership identity in an academic context?\n * How are identities reconstructed as we ascend the management hierarchy?\n * Do academic and management identities happily co-exist?\n * Is management performativity valued over intellectual leadership?\n

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Set of several diagrams of personal learning environments. Very interesting to see how different people visualize their environments.

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Article on Vgotsky and technology for learning. Relevant for PLE's.

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Paper on how LMS/CMS systems do have built-in pedagogies that are fostered by the software itself.

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Interesting article about the shifts inherent in the old and the new ways to interact on line. Good introduction with illustrations defining the context and then following with 22 laws of social economics. While this article has a business focus, I think much of it might also be applied to education.

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