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October-December 2008 (vol. 1 no. 4)
pp. 199-214
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Julita Vassileva, "Toward Social Learning Environments," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 199-214, October-December, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TLT.2009.4,
author = {Julita Vassileva},
title = {Toward Social Learning Environments},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies},
volume = {1},
number = {4},
issn = {1939-1382},
year = {2008},
pages = {199-214},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TLT.2009.4},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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KW - Economics
KW - Accreditation
KW - Computer and Information Science Education
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Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
We are teaching a new generation of students, cradled in technologies, communication and abundance of information. The implications are that we need to focus the design of learning technologies to support social learning in context. Instead of designing technologies that “teach” the learner, the new social learning technologies will perform three main roles: 1) support the learner in finding the right content (right for the context, for the particular learner, for the specific purpose of the learner, right pedagogically); 2) support learners to connect with the right people (again right for the context, learner, purpose, educational goal etc.), and 3) motivate / incentivize people to learn. In the pursuit of such environments, new areas of sciences become relevant as a source of methods and techniques: social psychology, economic / game theory, multi-agent systems. The paper illustrates how social learning technologies can be designed using some existing and emerging technologies: ontologies vs. social tagging, exploratory search, collaborative vs. self-managed social recommendations, trust and reputation mechanisms, mechanism design and social visualization.

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Index Terms:
Economics, Accreditation, Computer and Information Science Education, Computer Uses in Education, Games, Internet Applications, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Visualization
Citation:
Julita Vassileva, "Toward Social Learning Environments," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 199-214, Oct.-Dec. 2008, doi:10.1109/TLT.2009.4
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