Abstract
Based on the relevant concepts of Cyber Social Network Management (CSNM), this paper analyzes the necessity and possibility of CSNM from the perspective of connectivism and discusses the underlying aim and the essential strategies (processes, principles and tools) of CSNM. The paper makes an attempt to provide a series of helpful ideas and practices for distance learners to promote the learning power through CSNM.
Highlights
Learning Power: A Perspective of Connectivism. It argues that the key theoretical base of Cyber Social Network Management (CSNM) is connectivism
The function or objective of CSNM is mainly to promote the development of learning power needed in the digital age for the distance learner. (See Table 1)
CSNM refers to the processes and activities of constructing, regulating and making use of social network resources in the virtual space,including creating, maintaining connections and using social networks
Summary
Knowledge construction communities and collaborative learning are of great value to distributed learning activities. They are in accord with the distributed nature of human cognition, but conducive to the development of learners’ higher-order abilities, including analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating and creating. Effective distributed learning depends on learners to make full use of various tools to express their views/opinions. The learner can achieve the purposes of communicating, sharing, debating, diverging views, aggregating wisdom of others in the community. The learner cannot form a community or communicate with each other without the CSN platform constructed by the learner
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