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Agoraphobia and the modern learner
Dron, Jon and Anderson, Terry

PublishedMarch 2014
Type of workReusing Resources - Open for Learning (Special Issue)
JournalJournal of Interactive Media in Education
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 1-16
PublisherUbiquity Press Ltd.

ABSTRACT
Read/write social technologies enable rich pedagogies that centre on sharing and constructing content but have two notable weaknesses. Firstly, beyond the safe, nurturing environment of closed groups, students participating in more or less public network- or set-oriented communities may be insecure in their knowledge and skills, leading to resistance to disclosure. Secondly, it is hard to know who and what to trust in an open environment where others may be equally unskilled or, sometimes, malevolent. We present partial solutions to these problems through the use of collective intelligence, discretionary disclosure controls and mindful design.

Keywords collective · disclosure · group · network · privacy · set · social media · trust

ISSN1365-893X
RefereedYes
Rightsby/3.0
DOI10.5334/2014-03
URLhttp://jime.open.ac.uk/2014/03
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