From the Brown and Adler paper I decided to look at the Carnegie Online Teaching and Learning Commons. My search started by copying the url that appears in the Brown paper into my browser. That link is now dead. I went to the Carnegie web site and carried out a search for the T&L Commons there, but there is little information on it. I was able to find a page on that site that was from 2005 talked about the introduction of the Commons in 2008, but the venue itself now appears to have closed. Interestingly, B&A claim that this was a development from a more static (not web 2.0 based) online facility called the Carnegie Gallery. That appears to still be in existnce.
The above got me wondering about the effecitvely and sustainability of a web 2.0 facility if nobody contributes to the onine community. Sustainability requires ontribution.
I used the OU lbrary search facilitiy to search for academic papers that might refer to the Carnegie Online Teaching and Learning Commons, but there is not a lot on it. The B&A paper is mostly about social learning and so I carried out a number of searches using those key words, both using the OU library search and also that at my own University. That pulled up a lot of information about the learning of social behaviour of animals, children, etc. A narrowed seach for 'social learning distance education' was somewhat more fruitful, but not massively so.
I hit pay dirt to a certain extent when I searched for 'learning commons'. This specific term is only mentioned once in the B&A paper. That has made me wonder if the terminology of the topic has evolved, or matured.
The Carnegie Teaching Commons
From the Brown and Adler paper I decided to look at the Carnegie Online Teaching and Learning Commons. My search started by copying the url that appears in the Brown paper into my browser. That link is now dead. I went to the Carnegie web site and carried out a search for the T&L Commons there, but there is little information on it. I was able to find a page on that site that was from 2005 talked about the introduction of the Commons in 2008, but the venue itself now appears to have closed. Interestingly, B&A claim that this was a development from a more static (not web 2.0 based) online facility called the Carnegie Gallery. That appears to still be in existnce.
The above got me wondering about the effecitvely and sustainability of a web 2.0 facility if nobody contributes to the onine community. Sustainability requires ontribution.
I used the OU lbrary search facilitiy to search for academic papers that might refer to the Carnegie Online Teaching and Learning Commons, but there is not a lot on it. The B&A paper is mostly about social learning and so I carried out a number of searches using those key words, both using the OU library search and also that at my own University. That pulled up a lot of information about the learning of social behaviour of animals, children, etc. A narrowed seach for 'social learning distance education' was somewhat more fruitful, but not massively so.
I hit pay dirt to a certain extent when I searched for 'learning commons'. This specific term is only mentioned once in the B&A paper. That has made me wonder if the terminology of the topic has evolved, or matured.