action research modelI’ve been following Christopher D. Sessums Weblog for quite a while now and I always found that his posts were very thoughtful and elaborated. So today he provided some insights on Action Research and Social Software and how action research might be a model for educators to try out social software for teaching and learning. He provided a straighforward graphic on how action research works, i.e. experiment by actually acting, monitor and evaluate and then start to plan again, try it out and so on… Here’s the picture which I’ll attribute to him since he didn’t give any citation (hoping that I’m not violating any copyright).

I’m glad that the connection between social software and research has been stated by Christopher. This is exactly the focus of a recent study that we did at SCIL. We basically focussed on the literature of the past few years and tried to find scientific research on social software and its application in education. Results will be reported on this blog as well as soon as I’m done with translating them into English. Anyway, in my opinion we should have a closer (more scientific) look at how social software is used in the classroom and what are the factors that help teachers and learners. This might be the starting point for wider adoption of social software.


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