Participation under Compulsion

Authors

  • Petra Grell University of Potsdam (Germany)
  • Franco Rau University of Potsdam (Germany)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5i4.1458

Keywords:

Participation, Heteronomy, Resistance, Social Software, Higher Education

Abstract


Benefits of Social Software in teaching and learning are a research subject of great interest, especially in higher education. Even though the opportunities to encourage studentsâ?? participation are promising, there is a neglected area we intend to illuminate: heteronomy. Compulsion and external control are used to foster participation. In our study we examined 16 international evaluation and research papers which describe the implementation of Social Software to enhance studentsâ?? participation within courses. Several contradictions within these descriptions were revealed. One may realise that students pretend to â??play the game

Author Biographies

Petra Grell, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Professor for Media and Lifelong Learning, Department Educational Science

Franco Rau, University of Potsdam (Germany)

Department of Educational Science, University of Potsdam (Germany)

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Published

2010-11-23

How to Cite

Grell, P., & Rau, F. (2010). Participation under Compulsion. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 5(4), pp. 26–30. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5i4.1458

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