Annoted Bibliography about transparency in Cooperative Online Education

Bibliography Transparency in Cooperative Online Education


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The teacher‘s paper may be questionated when
confronted with the new technologies avaiable
for a educational surroundings. The
interactivity that exphosity a surroundings of
virtual learning, basead in hypermedia, make
the educator on position of rupture of
paradigms.
The generation that it be worked, it born within
this technological and digital context.
Therefore, its interation with this surroundings
is natural and its mind is moulded on hypertext
format, very compatible with its reallity and
configured by connectivited of some net of
comunication and information.
Keyword: Education, Comunication, Virtual
Learning.



Today we have highly sophisticated tools for the development ofapplications that address the cognitive development of methodologies throughhypermedia, but, we need to be entered into a new paradigm thatrequires educating always within a vision of wholeness. "(Moran, 1994).

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This article presents the current process of development of human intelligence:Empiricism argues that the intellectual development of man is based on external factors that can trigger reactions of assimilation, since part of the princ [ipio that human beings are devoid of intelligence;Rationalism which assumes that human beings have provided intelligence determines their intellectual development by interacting with the social environment and reorganizes its intelligence.But it is from the third stream of Constructivism, designed by Jean Piaget who concluded that "knowledge is formed and evolves through a process of construction" and that the process of learning occurs through the construction and reconstruction, and so does the knowledge.This was exactly my research to pursue the theory that after a long time could be developed with the help of technology in the Cooperative Education Online, where in other words Piaget raises the need for education be based on transparency, he said that to be transparent acting, and participate by putting everything that is learned for all to know and freedom to change direction and positioning if necessary to add and learn new experiências.





Transparency in Cooperative Online Education

Christian DalsgaardAarhus University, Denmark
Morten Flate PaulsenThe Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway


The purpose of this article is to discuss the following question: What is the potential of social networking within cooperative online education? Social networking does not necessarily involve communication, dialogue, or collaboration. Instead, the authors argue that transparency is a unique feature of social networking services. Transparency gives students insight into each other’s actions. Cooperative learning seeks to develop virtual learning environments that allow students to have optimal individual freedom within online learning communities. This article demonstrates how cooperative learning can be supported by transparency. To illustrate this with current examples, the article presents NKI Distance Education’s surveys and experiences with cooperative learning. The article discusses by which means social networking and transparency may be utilized within cooperative online education. In conclusion, the article argues that the pedagogical potential of social networking lies within transparency and the ability to create awareness among students.
Keywords: Online education; social networking; transparency; e-learning; cooperative learning; learning community

The purpose of this article is to discuss the following question: What is the pedagogical potential of social networking to support cooperative online learning? Often, the potential of social software and Web 2.0 is related to collaborative activities and user-generated content, not least in the context of online education. In other words, “social” is often described as communication, construction, and collaboration. This article will focus on other qualities of social software and Web 2.0 that are characteristic of social networking and are found in services such as weblogs, social networking sites, micro-blogging, and social presence tools. The article will argue that a central characteristic of social networking is the potential to facilitate transparency between students. The basic assumption is that transparency is important to cooperative online education. People can cooperate only if they know about each other and have access to some common information and services.
We understand transparency as students’ and teachers’ insight into each other’s activities and resources. Transparency means that you and your doings are visible to fellow students and teachers within a learning environment. For instance, transparency could mean that students and teachers are made aware of and have access to each other’s interests, thoughts, concerns, ideas, writings, references, and assignments. The purpose of transparency is to enable students and teachers to see and follow the work of fellow students and teachers within a learning environment and in that sense to make participants available to each other as resources for their learning activities.
Transparency is not a given, especially within online education. Students might work at a distance and individually, and, thus, they are not necessarily aware of the activities of other students. In their individual work, however, students write notes, search for literature, find relevant websites, write assignments, etc. This information and these products are relevant to other students. A central aspect of cooperative learning is to enable students to make use of each other while at the same time maintaining individual freedom. This article illustrates the theory of cooperative freedom with current examples from NKI Distance Education in Norway. With an enrollment of about 14,000 students, the institution is one of the European megaproviders of online education (Paulsen, 2007) and is Scandinavia’s largest provider of distance education. About 75 percent of the students are enrolled in NKI’s more than 450 online courses, and to accommodate this volume NKI operates a self-developed learning management system (LMS) called SESAM. The system was developed to support NKI’s model for large-scale distance education, which features individual student progress as it is described in the articles NKI Fjernundervisning: Two Decades of Online Sustainability (Paulsen & Rekkedal, as cited in Paulsen, 2003) and Cooperative Online Education (Paulsen, 2008). The authors of the current article refer to three internal evaluation reports regarding individual progress planning, follow-up, and cooperation. The first survey (Paulsen, 2005) was answered by 364 students, the second (Paulsen, 2006) by 542 students, and the third (Paulsen, 2008) by 763 students.


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The vision of Dalsgaard and Paulsen, icons of the Freedom Cooperative and Transparency online is that collaborative learning can be supported by transparency and that the educational potential of social networks is within the ability to create awareness among students and Transparency means that voc6e and their achievements are visible and become known by his colleagues on the network and that all participants of the network have individual freedom within online learning and enables them to receive and collaboratively to exchange knowledge and experience through social interaction they establish with the participants this learning process in the network.I'm going further, ... with the experience I have as a human being during my twenty years of psychological counseling for people seeking help because they bear the anguish that came as a result of passivity and nde of my office together with my performance in education throughout that time, I say transparency that exists in online cooperative education, returns to man the freedom to put all his experience and knowledge gained through both research as you can translate your position and your point of view grounded in their life experiences and put available to people who can add new experience.