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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
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  • About the authors
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Chapter 1. On the Nature and Value of Social Software for Learning

Download:  Chapter 1. On the Nature and Value of Social Software for Learning In this chapter we define what social software is, and present a list of ways that...

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  • How distance changes everything: slides from my keynote at the University of Ottawa November 20, 2020
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RSS Terry Anderson’s blog

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  • A visit to the University of South Africa (UNISA) 2019 December 17, 2019
  • Guest Post – The Evolving Backpacker September 25, 2019
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