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Connecting and Reflecting with Ning
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, University of Ontario

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference, ISBN 978-1-74138-403-1 Publisher: Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

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This paper chronicles one instructor’s experiences using a social networking site (Ning) to teach two graduate courses in education. It explores the decisions made in setting up the Ning and the affordances of teaching using a blended model of synchronous and asynchronous learning in UOIT’s online graduate program. The focus is specifically on the benefits and challenges of using a Ning network and Ning’s pedagogical potential for collaborative knowledge construction, the creation of a community of pra ctice, which fosters social presence and multimodal communication.

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Hughes, J. (2013). Connecting and Reflecting with Ning. In Proceedings of Electric Dreams. Proceedings ascilite 2013 Sydney (pp. 407-411). Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Retrieved January 26, 2021 from .

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