Transparency in Online Education

Annotated Bibliogaphy

Conole, Gráinne(2009). Keynote: Paulsen - Visualizing student profiles through NKI’s online catalogue and student network.

"Morten Flate Paulsen's keynote at Cambridge International Conference of Open & Distance Education. Key focus for Morten is: How can we make online students more visible?"

Paulsen defends that online student can be more visible through transparency of his learning process.

Paulsen, Morten (2009). Profiling Online Students.

Linder,Kathryn (2009). Students and Social Networking: Should You ‘Friend’ Your Students? in Trends in Higher Education.

"If you are part of a social network, you may have already had this experience: a current or former student attempts to “friend” you online. Whether you keep a professional profile or offer a more casual representation of yourself online, keep the following teaching concerns in mind."

Dalsgaard,Christian (?). Social networking sites: Transparency in online education. University of Aarhus.
"The paper discusses the question: What are the pedagogical potentials of social networking sites? Whereas collaboration and user-generated content are often highlighted as major potentials of Web 2.0 technologies, the paper argues that a central characteristic of social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and Ning is a combination of personalization and socialization. This combination has a potential to facilitate transparency between students. Transparency gives students insight into each other’s work."

Shaughnessy, Michael (2009). An Interview with Morten Flate Paulsen: Transparency in Online Education. Eastern New Mexico University.
"Transparency entails that people can see information about each other. It is however difficult to decide how much information they should be allowed to see. Transparency is also an important driver for improved quality."

Paulsen, Morten (2008). Transparency for Quality. Toonlet

Paulsen, Morten (2008). Transparency for Cooperation. Toonlet

Dalsgaard,Christian & Paulsen,Morten (2009). Transparency in Cooperative Online Education. Denmark & Norway.
"(...)the authors argue that transparency is a unique feature of social networking services. Transparency gives students insight into each other’s actions. Cooperative learning seeks to develop virtual learning environments that allow students to have optimal individual freedom within online learning communities. This article demonstrates how cooperative learning can be supported by transparency."

Connectivism networked and social learning (2009). Teaching as transparent learning.
"When someone decides to share their thoughts and ideas in a transparent manner, they become a teacher to those who are observing. Social technology – such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook – opens the door to sharing the process of learning, not only the final product."

Dalsgaard, Christian (2009). Supporting Transparency between Students. New York
"The paper presents the results of a case study that explores the potentials of weblogs and social bookmarking to support transparency in a university course"