This paper (10 page PDF) examines the a pedagogical strategy called "Digital Moments" (DM) for "developing creative interactive online learning communities" within the context of the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) model, based on a "foundation of problem-based learning, cognitive and social presence, and learner-centred pedagogies" (which sounds a lot like a MOOC, but I digress). Anyhow, the idea of digital moments is "to replicate the relationship building moments which naturally occur as students enter a face to face class before the structured learning begins." In it, students met on Adobe Connect (ugh) and uploaded "pictures, quotes, colours, links to describe in a single snapshot where the person was at that week." In other words, they basically opened the online conferencing environment before the formal conference started, and (as this paper reports) students took to it. Anyhow, the description was useful (the formal study, with 25 participants, was rather less so).
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