Some further nuggets:
While looking for issues in online communities I found the paper social cohesion and online community extremely incisive and worth a glance. This paper is part of a project looking into theories of the ways and extent that computer based networks contribute to reinforcing social cohesion and capital.
The paper Cultural and critical dimensions in a virtual power struggle also makes some useful points in that it addresses issues asscoiated with students undertaking purely online courses without F2F - an area where there appears to be little research.
Another paper looks at motivation important in relation to Salmon's first stage.It is especially interesting as it introduces Keller's ARCS model as a measuring tool. Further reading on this can be found at:
Sunday, November 21, 2004
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Those papers look useful Simon, I'll have a proper look at them later.
I'm not quite sure though what Blogger has done to your links. The "Culture dimensions" and "Motivation" links were appearing as http://kmetp-waltons.blogspot.com/'http://www.shef.ac.uk/nlc2002/proceedings/papers/27.htm - i.e. prefixed with your blog. However, on this page where I'm entering the comments, they aren't even showing up as links.
Emma,
I've fixed the links but the single comment page looks peculiar - photo etc. down right.
Not sure what problem is.
cheers
Ah. I think that's my fault... the URL was too long. If you have IE, then a long URL forces the side bar to drop to the bottom. If you have Firefox, then it just puts the URL over the sidebar.
If you have a look at these two: Terry's Blog - IE and Terry's blog in Firefox hopefully you'll see what I mean. The second entry has a URL that's too long.
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