Comments on: International Online Conference 2010 Sneak Peek http://www.fullcirc.com/2010/02/25/international-online-conference-2010-sneak-peek/ connections for a changing world, online and offline... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:42:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/2010/02/25/international-online-conference-2010-sneak-peek/comment-page-1/#comment-30161 Nancy White Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:50:34 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=1754#comment-30161 Milind, sorry for my slow response. You helped me see that how I expressed the continuum may not be very clear. Yes, I totally agree that there is a coexistence. Now I have to think about how to articulate the RANGE more clearly. Thanks! Milind, sorry for my slow response. You helped me see that how I expressed the continuum may not be very clear. Yes, I totally agree that there is a coexistence. Now I have to think about how to articulate the RANGE more clearly. Thanks!

]]> By: Milind http://www.fullcirc.com/2010/02/25/international-online-conference-2010-sneak-peek/comment-page-1/#comment-29820 Milind Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:26:40 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=1754#comment-29820 Communities - formal or informal and real or virtual, thrive on a purpose and on the desire to share. Communities offer a space to test one's views with the comfort of dealing with a like minded audience. A classroom can be a community too- but not in a real sense unless members of the community- all the students and the teachers -are keen to share information and resources, participate in discussions and debate, leading to learning. On the other hand, a lot of learning can occur in a virtual community (no matter how far the members are located) through a genuine exchange of ideas and resources. Whether educational institutions want it or not, learners will seek to be a part of a networked community. I therefore see community-network learning not in a continuum with individual learning but in coexistence with it- giving the learner a choice - sometimes going ahead as an individual, sometimes participating in a community - either to contribute or to take away some learning. Communities – formal or informal and real or virtual, thrive on a purpose and on the desire to share. Communities offer a space to test one’s views with the comfort of dealing with a like minded audience. A classroom can be a community too- but not in a real sense unless members of the community- all the students and the teachers -are keen to share information and resources, participate in discussions and debate, leading to learning. On the other hand, a lot of learning can occur in a virtual community (no matter how far the members are located) through a genuine exchange of ideas and resources.

Whether educational institutions want it or not, learners will seek to be a part of a networked community.

I therefore see community-network learning not in a continuum with individual learning but in coexistence with it- giving the learner a choice – sometimes going ahead as an individual, sometimes participating in a community – either to contribute or to take away some learning.

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