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E-Social Constructivism and Collaborative E-Learning

E-Social Constructivism and Collaborative E-Learning
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Author(s): Janet Salmons (Vision2Lead, Inc., USA & Capella University, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Janet Salmons (Vision2lead, Inc. and Capella University, USA)and Lynn Wilson (SeaTrust Institute, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3.ch019

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Abstract

Social constructivism is an established educational theory based on the principle that learners and teachers co-construct knowledge through social processes. This chapter proposes an updated theory, e-social constructivism, that takes into account the milieu of electronic communications in which e-learning occurs. Thinkers such as Dewey, Piaget, Vygotsky, and Bruner, who laid the theoretical foundations of social constructivism, wrote in a time when face-to-face interactions were the basis for instruction. The works of these writers are reviewed in this chapter. Together with the results of the author’s phenomenological study of collaborative e-learning, they form the basis of e-social constructivist theory. The author uses grounded theory and situational analysis to derive and support e-social constructivist theory. This chapter discusses the implication of that theory for research, teaching and instructional design.

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