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Digital spaces designated for learning need to invite to social learning. Oftentimes, however, students express feelings of loneliness in their learning in online courses. Making the students more visible to each other is hence crucial. In this article we present a study of students’ self-presentations. We find that they are rather unelaborated, and we propose an alternative solution to making students identities visible within the learning space. Our proposed solution is a separate system that can be plugged into any digital learning system: the edentity.
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Olsson, H.M., Persson Slumpi, T. (2013). Knowing My Peers: Edentity – To Invite Peer Interaction and Social Learning. In: Ley, T., Ruohonen, M., Laanpere, M., Tatnall, A. (eds) Open and Social Technologies for Networked Learning. OST 2012. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37285-8_4
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