Collaborative Online Learning

ONLINE FORUM

¢ People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic made from the discussions.

¢ Most Online forums require registration to post.

·        Online Forum-Forum Structure

User groups                                   Moderator

      Administrator                               Post

Thread                                             Private message

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WIKIS

¢ Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser.

¢ Wiki is a combination of a CGI script and a collection of plain text files that allows users to create Web pages “on the fly.”

¢ Wiki supports hyperlinks and has simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslink between internal pages on the fly.

¢ Editing wiki pages

PODCASTING

¢ Podcasting is a time-shifting technology. Learners can download an audio file to a portable device and listen to it at their convenience.

¢ The mobility and time shifting afforded by podcasting enables learners and instructors to expand the boundaries of the classroom and bring together course content and the world outside the campus.

SECOND LIFE

¢ In Second Life participants use avatars, virtual selves that reflect the creators’ personalities, to interact with one another within the online environment.

¢ A free client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars.