Further Information: There are clear ways for those involved in e-Learning to share their successes and solve problems with others.
Peer learning has proved to be one of the most effective ways for people to learn new skills and support each other. Find out more about Peer Learning on this web site.
New technology offers many ways for people to communicate, share problems and ideas. Social networking and online Communities of Interest are popular ways for groups of people with a shared interest to move forward together.
You can find a straightforward explanation of social networking on this web site.
It makes little sense for an e-Learning initiative to not take advantage of the communications that new technology offers. Formal and informal groups can be facilitated. It is sometimes useful to have a moderator to oversee a group. The role of the moderator may be to keep the topic moving, to maximise input by members of the group, to provoke discussion of specific topics and to capture ideas and present them in a succinct and easily readable format. Some groups have a very brief and focussed lifetime to solve specific problems, others are less formal and continue until members stop using the forum.
Do you use such online forums?
- If yes, are they effective?
- If no, why not?
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