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Foundation To Promote Scholarship And Teaching 2010-2011 Awards, Office Of The Provost, Roger Williams University Jan 2011

Foundation To Promote Scholarship And Teaching 2010-2011 Awards, Office Of The Provost, Roger Williams University

Foundation to Promote Scholarship & Teaching

Proposal abstracts of 2010-2011 award recipients in a wide range of disciplinary areas.


Beyond Friending: Buddypress And The Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom, Matthew K. Gold Jan 2011

Beyond Friending: Buddypress And The Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom, Matthew K. Gold

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Classrooms have always been networks, of a sort, with professors and students forming an interlaced series of nodes that take shape over the course of a semester, but tools like BuddyPress and WordPress can make those networks more open, more porous, and more varied. In very useful ways, the classroom-as-social-network can help create engaging spaces for learning in which students are more connected to one another, to their professors, and to the wider world.