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Engaging Google Docs in Support of an Online Collaborative, Community of Learners Instructional Strategy

Full Paper ID: 45498
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    Henry Gillow-Wiles
    Oregon State University
  2. Margaret Niess
    Oregon State University

Abstract: Situating teaching and learning in an online context presents challenges for instructors in creating educational experiences where students are supported in collaboratively engaging in a community of learners. This descriptive multiple case study employed a phenemonographic lens to investigate the impact of engaging Google Docs as a collaborative technology in support of online collaborative, community of learners instructional strategies as part of a graduate level course focusing on teaching and learning with Web 2.0 technologies. The course in question was part of a three-year online Masters in mathematics, science, and technology program. Results suggest that Google Docs, as part of an instructor-designed learning trajectory, was effective in supporting the 10 in-service teacher participants in learning how to engage collaborative software as a learning tool as well as how they might bring technology-supported collaborative, community of learner instructional strategies into their

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