Collaborating Online: Scholarship, Research, & Community Building

Cynthia Chandler, cchandler@nu.edu

KayDee Caywood, kcaywood@nu.edu

School of Education

Why a Learning Community?

A Study of an Online Social Learning Platform (Caywood & Chandler, 2013)

SurveyPreliminary Results (Caywood & Keeler, 2013)Increase in communication, collaboration and sharingInvestigation ongoing

NU Faculty Learning Community

TED Learning Community

References

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