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See-through learning

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They have to spend time thinking about how to get to a discussion group, or how to save content, when their energy and time should be spent learning. Some platforms are better than others of course, but generally many institutional managed learning environments suffer from the same problem - opacity. Unported License.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

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The MentorBlog project for example, employed the use of two-person blogs to connect students with their professional mentors, who may never have had the opportunity to meet face to face (Wheeler and Lambert-Heggs, 2008). The Good, the Bad and the Wiki: Evaluating Student Generated Content as a Collaborative Learning Tool. Yeomans, P.

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