{"id":212,"date":"2007-05-18T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=212"},"modified":"2007-05-18T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:46:08","slug":"shifting-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Shifting ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m changing my research questions again – this time more profoundly than usual.<\/p>\n

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  1. Which key skills<\/strong> do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching?<\/font><\/li>\n
  2. Which key resources<\/strong> do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching?<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Resources identified by Neil Mercer in’Words and Minds’ include:<\/p>\n

    Communities have the following resources:<\/p>\n

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    History Members recall and reflect on shared experience<\/p>\n

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    Collective identity Members use this to find meaning, purpose and direction for their own endeavours and relate these to others<\/p>\n

    <\/strong> Members use this to find meaning, purpose and direction for their own endeavours and relate these to others<\/p>\n

    Reciprocal obligations Members have responsibilities for each other and can expect access to each other\u2019s intellectual resources<\/p>\n

    <\/strong> Members have responsibilities for each other and can expect access to each other\u2019s intellectual resourcesDiscourse Fluency in the discourse is one of the obvious signs of membership. Language is reshaped to suit members’ communicative demands.<\/p>\n

    <\/strong> Fluency in the discourse is one of the obvious signs of membership. Language is reshaped to suit members’ communicative demands.<\/font><\/strong>Members recall and reflect on shared experience Members use this to find meaning, purpose and direction for their own endeavours and relate these to others Members have responsibilities for each other and can expect access to each other\u2019s intellectual resources Fluency in the discourse is one of the obvious signs of membership. Language is reshaped to suit members’ communicative demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m changing my research questions again – this time more profoundly than usual. Which key skills do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching? Which key resources do members of an online learning community use to support their learning and teaching? Resources identified by Neil Mercer in’Words and Minds’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-progress","category-research-questions","category-things-to-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}