Your guide to social e-learning – About this resource

About this resource

Contents

Quick start
What can you get out of this resource?
Who is this resource for?
What’s in each section?

 

This resource contains:

• Guides: to help you develop your knowledge and skills with strategies, tools and activities for social e-learning.
• Case studies: from teachers who are using strategies, tools and activities for social e-learning.

Look at ‘What’s in each section?’ below for more information on the contents of this resource.

Quick start

At Your guide there is an interactive tool you can use as a starting point to:

• Get brief descriptions of the strategies, tools and activities contained in this resource.
• Discover suitable tools and activities you can use to implement each of the suggested strategies.
• Go to the guides for any strategies, tools and activities that interest you.

You can also click the sections listed in the left menu to go to all the case studies and guides in this resource. For more advice on how to navigate this resource go to the User guide at ‘About this resource’.

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What can you get out of this resource?

Depending on your interests or prior skills and knowledge, you can use this resource to:

• Get concrete guidance and tips for getting started with social e-learning strategies and tools.
• Expand your repertoire of teaching and learning strategies or e-learning tools.
• Enhance your skills for planning and managing e-learning activities.

For more advice on how you could use this resource for professional learning go to the User guide at ‘About this resource’.

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Who is this resource for?

This resource will be useful for teachers, trainers, educators and facilitators working in vocational and educational training within adult training organisations, universities and schools.

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What’s in each section?

The following table outlines the content in this resource.

Section name	Contents
Welcome	An introduction to the social e-learning landscape and opportunities and challenges with using social software for empowering learners.
About this resource	About this resource: Overview of contents and purpose of this resource. User guide: Ideas for using this resource for professional learning. Project background: About this New Practices project; Credits and acknowledgements.
Your guide	An interactive tool to explore the social e-learning strategies, tools and activities in this resource. You can use this tool to: Get an overview of the guides provided in this resource on social e–learning strategies, tools and sample activities. Find suitable tools and activities for implementing a social e–learning strategy. Go to a guide you select and view it, then return to the tool window and go to another guide.
Case studies	A range of case studies (audio conversations) from trainers and educators who are using social e–learning strategies and social software tools. The case studies will help you to learn from their experiences and get ideas for planning, setting up and managing online activities.
Strategies	Guides that explain some social e–learning strategies and help you determine suitable approaches for your students.
Tools	Guides that explain a selection of social e–learning technologies or tools to help you to evaluate the tools, get started and plan and build learning activities.
Activities	Guides that describe a range of sample activities.

 

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