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Social Learning Perspective 7
of Educational Technology

Chapter Outline

• Social learning
• Features of technology in social learning
• Building learning communities/group
• Analysis and measure group learning.

By the End of This Chapter, You Should Be Able To
• Clarify the definition of social learning
• Build and manage a learning community
• Conduct interaction analysis through social network analysis and content
analysis method.

Main Learning Activities

1. According to your own experience, describe a social learning experience and
your own perceptions as well as summarize the advantages of social learning.
Think about what are the differences among a social learning approach,
behavioral, and cognitive approaches.
2. Describe a learning community with which you have been involved and state
what makes a learning community. You can use this class as an example if you
have no other option.
3. Think about why technology is essential in social learning. What kind of roles
technology can play to promote social learning, and describe a social learning
scenario for the applied technology?
4. Think about how to build and manage learning group in a classroom if you are a
teacher?

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