Favourite quotes
June 2, 2008“…while technology enables us to quickly access, share, and amass knowledge, it does not automatically transform a group of learners into a community of learners.”
- Dixon, JS 2006, ‘Breaking the ice: supporting collaboration and the development of community online, Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, vol. 32(2) Spring, p. 1.
“Learning cannot be designed…It slips through cracks; it creates its own cracks. Learning happens, design or no design.”
- Wenger, E 1999, Communities of practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 225.
“…New Yorker cartoon of a dog using the Internet, “On the ‘Net nobody knows you’re a dog.”
- Brown, JS 1999, ‘Learning, working and playing in the digital age’, Conference on Higher Education, The American Association for Higher Education.
“It’s not about the wires, it’s about what flows through them.”
- November, A 2005, cited in Woodland et al. 2007, ‘Virtual learning communities’, Business Education Digest, issue 16, p. 71.
“Technology enables educators to establish learning communities whose boundaries are only limited by the imagination of those who participate within that learning community.”
- Redmond, P & Lock, JL 2008, ‘A flexible framework for online collaborative learning’, The Internet and Higher Education, vol 9, p. 275.
