Abstract
Over the years, insights about ALN collaboration from Sloan-C’s annual publications in the quality series, in Effective Practices, and in The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), have been useful for refining theoretical and practical knowledge about online education. This summary points to additional resources related to collaboration.
Highlights
Opportunities for collaboration are the internet’s greatest gift
asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) increases the potential for collaboration among people with diverse perspectives, who can much more collaborate from widespread locations and contexts
In Student Role Adjustment in Online Communities of Inquiry: Model and Instrument Validation, Garrison, Cleveland-Innes, and Fung explain that: Inevitably, the student must assume greater responsibility to match the increased control that comes with online learning
Summary
Opportunities for collaboration are the internet’s greatest gift. Asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) enable rapid dissemination, testing, feedback application and refinement of ideas [1. ALN increases the potential for collaboration among people with diverse perspectives, who can much more collaborate from widespread locations and contexts. The networks in ALN emphasize not just technological networks, but networks of people [3, 4]
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