Even a virtual synchronous classroom has walls: There's more to collective meaning making than the technology

Terrie Lynn Thompson

(2003) pp. 1–191

The parade of new technologies is relentless. Are newer learning paradigms, such as sociocultural perspectives, reflected in the design and delivery of e-learning experiences? Studying the triad of stakeholders involved in a workplace e-learning...

(Re/Dis)assembling Learning Practices Online with Fluid Objects and Spaces

Terrie Lynn Thompson

Studies in Continuing Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (2012) pp. 251–266

Actor network theory (ANT) is used to explore how work-learning is enacted in informal online communities and illustrates how researchers might use sociomaterial approaches to uncover complexities, uncertainties, and specificities of work-learning...

The Virtual Classroom@Work: How Technology Shapes Workplace Learning

Terrie Lynn Thompson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2166–2171

Organizations seeking improvements in the way they work and build knowledge reach for new learning paradigms. Sociocultural perspectives offer a way to envision how technology could shape more dynamic workplace learning. Studying the triad involved...

Topics: Integration, Social Studies

Assembly required: Self-employed workers' informal work-learning in online communities

Terrie Lynn Thompson

Assembly@required: Self@-employed workers' informal work@-learning in online communities (2010) pp. 1–176

It seems that for many people, spaces on the web are an integral part of their lives. This may include seeking out learning opportunities in online communities. There is plenty of buzz about these cyberspaces whether they are part of new social...

Digital Doings: Curating Work-Learning Practices and Ecologies

Terrie Lynn Thompson

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 41, No. 3 (2016) pp. 480–500

Workers are faced with wider networks of knowledge generation amplified by the scale, diffusion, and critical mass of digital artefacts and web technologies globally. In this study of mobilities of work-learning practices, I draw on sociomaterial...

Using e-Learning to Bridge the Global Digital Divide: Successes and Challenges from the International Field

Terrie Lynn Thompson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 989–993

Millions of dollars are invested globally to bridge the digital divide. However, lasting learning will only result when people apply technology for social and economic benefits. These circumstances create opportunities for unique learning programs...

Topics: Digital Divide, Community

Self-Employed and Online: (Re)negotiating Work-Learning Practices

Terrie Lynn Thompson

Journal of Workplace Learning Vol. 22, No. 6 (2010) pp. 360–375

Purpose: In order to explore how informal pedagogical moments are being renegotiated by the technology woven into people's lives, this paper aims to focus on online communities as sites of learning; more specifically, the informal work-related...

Information and Communication Technologies as Educational Research Participants

Catherine Adams; Terrie-Lynn Thompson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2269–2273

In this paper, we explore the inclusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as key research participants when investigating 21st century learning environments. We ask: how do we bring to inquiry the high-technology artefacts...

Critical Elements of eLearning: Structure, content, delivery, service, and outcomes

Colla MacDonald; Terrie-Lynn Thompson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 975–988

In this paper we used a credible model, the Demand-Driven Learning Model (DDLM), (MacDonald, Stodel, Farres, Breithaupt, & Gabriel, 2001) and its companion evaluation tool (MacDonald, Breithaupt, Stodel, Farres, & Gabriel, 2002) to design, delivery, ...

Topics: Evaluation

Community building, emergent design and expecting the unexpected: Creating a quality eLearning experience

Terrie Lynn Thompson; Colla J. MacDonald

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005) pp. 233–249

Given the extraordinary interest and growth in eLearning as a learning tool and as an industry, it is not surprising there is lively debate on quality. A research-based and tested eLearning model was used to design and evaluate an online M.Ed....

Language: English

Topics: eLearning

Criticality and the exercise of politeness in online spaces for professional learning

Cate Watson; Anna Wilson; Valerie Drew; Terrie Lynn Thompson

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (October 2016) pp. 43–51

This research examines masters-accredited online professional learning aimed at fostering criticality and a disposition to collective professional autonomy. Drawing on a model of online learning conceived as a nexus of cognitive, social and teaching ...

Language: English