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Welcome to PBwiki 2.0!

Background 

This is a repository of the Research Project on the Blogs and Moodle Forum as tools for Learning and Communication.

Our research team consists of

Jenny Mackness, Sui Fai John Mak, Roy Williams and Matthew Matthias (who left the team in early April for personal reasons).

We would like to acknowledge Matthew for his great contribution throughout the planning stage of this research project.

Why are we opening this wiki to you?

At the start of the research project, we have considered opening this wiki to any CCK08 ex-learners/participants.  After some discussion amongst us, we realised the challenges in communication and collaborations in the initial stage of team formation.  We also realised that we need to maintain our integrity and comply with research ethics throughout the research project.  We have decided to keep this wiki private until we have conducted our survey.  This will ensure that our research could be conducted in a professional and ethical manner, and that the research questions are disclosed to people who are involved in the CCK08 course, which could further minimise biasing and errors in the research.

As we have finished the first stage of our survey (which will be closed on 30 April09), we have decided to open up this wiki to any CCK08 participants or interested members of http://connectivismeducationlearning.ning.com for viewing and comments. 

Notes:

(1) You have been registered with this wiki and are granted the status of a reader.  You can view all files and pages contained in this wiki.  You will not be able to edit the pages but can add comments on the wiki.   You are welcomed to contact us by leaving comments.

(2) We have removed certain documents - Interview Trends, Linked Hypothesis, Further Survey Tasks and details of CCK08 participants from this wiki.  Part of the reasons were to maintain confidentiality of our fellow CCK08 learners.  Everything we have written on this wiki has been written in good faith as part of our research

(3) We have continued our research on this project in another private wiki mainly because of the need to maintain confidentiality of the data we have collected, and to analyse the data within ourselves firts.  Please note that we would be sharing our findings with the community when we have completed our further survey and analysis of the more findings.

(4) As we haven't published any part of the research, we have adopted the Creative Common Licence on all folders, files and documents on this wiki.  Please refer to the Creative Common Licence Page for details.  You are reminded not to copy any of our research work for publication, as a proposal, or submission of any assessment or project work, or part of the thesis or dissertation without our consent.  You are

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When editing this wiki, we have agreed that Jenny will identify herself by typing in blue font, Matthias by typing in brown font, and John by highlighting his text in yellow. Roy - would you like to choose a different colour to identify yourself.