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Monday, December 28, 2009
Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly
•Learning takes place in a social context, and encouraging student-student and student-faculty contact and interaction gets at the heart of student engagement in online-education settings. •Because of their fundamental reliance on social participation and contribution, Web 2.0 tools, specifically social-networking tools, have great potential for enhancing the social context in support of learning, especially in online education. •Twitter used as an instructional tool can add value to online and face-to-face university courses that far outweighs its potential drawbacks.
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