Abstract
This chapter provides a case study of a social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to provide a space for practitioners to share and discuss learning and teaching ideas. It describes the perceived need for the site, the vision underpinning its development, its functionality and an overview of some of the patterns of user behaviour we are seeing emerging in the site. It applies the community indicator framework (CIF) described in Chap. 14 to explain these patterns of behaviour.
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Conole, G. (2012). Cloudworks. In: Designing for Learning in an Open World. Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8517-0_15
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