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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Web 2.0: Inherent Tensions and Evident Challenges for Education
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Dohn, Nina Bonderup – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
In upper tertiary educational programmes around the world, the new Web-mediated communication practices termed Web 2.0 are introduced as learning activities with the goal of facilitating learning through collaborative knowledge construction. The aim of this paper is to point to discrepancies in the views of learning, knowledge, and the goals of…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Educational Practices, Higher Education, Educational Strategies
Affordances Revisited: Articulating a Merleau-Pontian View
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Dohn, Nina Bonderup – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2009
This article takes a renewed look at the concept of "affordance." It points out that the concept is being used within the CSCL community in ways which signify an underlying disagreement concerning the exact ontological nature and epistemological status of an "affordance." Such disagreement, it is argued, is a problem for both design and empirical…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Epistemology