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  • About the book
    • Overview
    • What are social media?
    • The Typology of Social Forms
    • Cooperative freedoms in social forms
    • Transactional distance in groups, nets and sets
    • Generations of distance learning pedagogy
  • Read and discuss the chapters
    • Preface
    • Chapter 1. On the Nature and Value of Social Software for Learning
    • Chapter 2. Social Learning Theories
    • Chapter 3. A Typology of Social Forms for Learning
    • Chapter 4. Learning in Groups
    • Chapter 5. Learning in Networks
    • Chapter 6. Learning in Sets
    • Chapter 7. Learning with Collectives
    • Chapter 8. Stories From the Field
    • Chapter 9. Issues and Challenges in Educational Uses of Social Software
    • Chapter 10. The Shape of Things and of Things to Come
    • References
  • Further resources
    • Related papers
    • Presentations
    • Sites and systems
  • About the authors
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Connected but alone

Posted on December 18, 2017 by admin / 0 Comment

An interesting student evaluation of a chapter of our book at http://www.bahula.ca/2017/05/teaching-crowds-connected-but-alone/ which compares our (initially an...

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Interesting application of the net/set/group model to Google apps

Posted on December 18, 2017 by admin / 0 Comment

Communities, Networks and Connected Learning with Google From the Melbourne GAFESummit at Xavier College, 2016, comes an interesting analysis of a variety of Go...

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Review in UoT Quarterly

Posted on September 8, 2016 by admin / 0 Comment

Unfortunately, I can only see the first paragraphs of this review by Giuliana Cucinelli as it is in a closed journal, but I like how it starts: “Dron and ...

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Commentary by Michael Moore on the AJDE review of Teaching Crowds

Posted on January 6, 2016 by admin / 0 Comment

Some excellent reflections from the always wonderful Michael Moore on our book, albeit indirectly through the eyes of the book’s reviewer, Jason Oliver (s...

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Review from the American Journal of Distance Education

Posted on January 6, 2016 by admin / 0 Comment

A nice, detailed review of Teaching Crowds by Jason Oliver, that describes all the chapters well and that provides some good observations on what kind of value ...

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Review from the Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning

Posted on November 27, 2015 by admin / 0 Comment

A kind review from Evelyn Lewis that describes the book well and that recommends it as “an extremely useful practitioner’s guide that will appeal to teach...

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Review from the Journal for Learning Development

Posted on September 8, 2015 by admin / 0 Comment

A great and detailed summary of the book by Karen Ferreira-Meyers, describing each chapter in turn as well as providing some useful commentary on it. She notes ...

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Review from AACE

Posted on July 19, 2015 by admin / 0 Comment

http://blog.aace.org/2015/07/15/book-review-teaching-crowds/ A brief and kindly review, focusing on the teaching of crowds element of the book. Of course, the b...

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New book review from India

Posted on March 23, 2015 by admin / 0 Comment

This is rather an interesting and decidedly descriptive approach to reviewing, which simply uses text from our own preface, very lightly tweaked and edited. We ...

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Posted on October 12, 2014 by admin / 0 Comment

When Teaching Crowds appeared in its free PDF format a few weeks ago we were taken a bit by surprise as we thought we had at least a couple of weeks before this...

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Recent Posts

  • Connected but alone
  • Interesting application of the net/set/group model to Google apps
  • Review in UoT Quarterly
  • Commentary by Michael Moore on the AJDE review of Teaching Crowds
  • Review from the American Journal of Distance Education

Recent Comments

  • The physics of social spaces are not like the physics of physical spaces – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Echoes and polarization in Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter: it's not just about the algorithms – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Kafkaesque and Orwellian technology design – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Natalie Cassano on Chapter 3. A Typology of Social Forms for Learning
  • Google Launches Revamped Google Plus Around Interests, Streams | Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms

Book-related sites

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  • AU Press book page
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  • Jon Dron’s site
  • Terry Anderson’s blog
  • Athabasca Landing
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Some sites we like

  • elearnspace
  • Tony Bates’s site
  • Donald Clark Plan B
  • Stephen’s Web
  • Stories to TEL
  • Learning with ‘e’s
  • e4innovation
  • Dave’s educational blog
  • Iterating towards openness

RSS Jon Dron’s blog and bookmarks

  • Can a technology be true? March 16, 2023
  • View of Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape March 13, 2023
  • My latest paper: Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning February 17, 2023
  • Athabasca University’s major unions condemn the sacking of Peter Scott. Meanwhile…. February 10, 2023
  • Petition · Athabasca University – Oppose direct political interference in universities · Change.org February 6, 2023
  • Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by the Albertan government February 3, 2023
  • My keynote slides for Confluence 2023 – Heads in the clouds: being human in the age of cloud computing January 20, 2023
  • Proceedings of The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference, 2022 (and call for proposals for this year’s conference, due January 31) January 13, 2023
  • Two stories about learning to be human from a machine January 13, 2023
  • Hot off the press: Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (open access) January 5, 2023
  • On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning January 3, 2023
  • Some meandering thoughts on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ learning December 21, 2022
  • Loab is showing us the unimaginable future of artificial intelligence – ABC News November 30, 2022
  • Brunel University’s Integrated Programme Assessment – a neat way to decouple learning and credentials November 24, 2022
  • Slides from my ICEEL 22 Keynote, November 20, 2022 November 21, 2022

RSS Terry Anderson’s blog

  • Disruptive Critical Theory Strikes Canadian Unitarians May 9, 2022
  • Interaction in Distance and Online Education: A Research Review March 16, 2022
  • My Home Solar Finances August 26, 2021
  • Why I swim in a fishbowl January 23, 2021
  • Emergency Distance Education March 13, 2020
  • Most Eco Solstice Tree December 23, 2019
  • A visit to the University of South Africa (UNISA) 2019 December 17, 2019
  • Guest Post – The Evolving Backpacker September 25, 2019
  • Type S (social) Interaction Revisited June 26, 2019
  • Sorry, Riverdale is Full May 22, 2019

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