Online social networking, the e-learning holy grail?
Geoff Walton
Introduction
The study reported in this chapter shows that students regard online collaborative learning (online social network learning; OSNL) motivating, productive and enjoyable, which tutors have found leads students to a better understanding of their subject. This chapter seeks to argue that the lessons learnt from this research can be harnessed to provide us with a generic template for managing online discourse, a protocol for using any online social networking Web 2.0 application for educational purposes. This generic template is, in effect, a new e-pedagogy for participative learning, which is platform independent and employs the positive social connectivity features ...
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