Generations of distance learning pedagogy
In Teaching Crowds (and in a widely cited paper) we have described three generations of distance education pedagogy: the behaviourist/cognitivist generation, th...
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Transactional distance in groups, nets and sets
Michael Moore’s theory of transactional distance has been used countless times over the past few decades to both guide and explain distance learning trans...
What are social media?
Social media are those that gain value or meaning as a result of the interactions of more than one person. In Teaching Crowds we include quite a lot of things i...
Chapter 7. Learning with Collectives
Download: Chapter 7. Learning with Collectives But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can,Existent behind all laws, that made them and, lo, th...
Chapter 3. A Typology of Social Forms for Learning
Download: Chapter 3. A Typology of Social Forms for Learning The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb The Internet era f...
The Typology of Social Forms
The organizing principle used throughout Teaching Crowds is based around our typology of social forms. These are essentially ways of classifying communities. We...
Related papers
We have authored quite a few peer review papers relating to the themes and ideas discussed in Teaching Crowds. This page lists a sample of some of these. Collec...