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Facilitating the relationships that support learning and research.

The Social Academic Environment

“What we know as academics is that communities cohere around content. The ability to begin to show the students how that happens, give them a place to have thicker content, and begin to have meaningful communities around it was very important to us.”

—Dr. Lucy Appert, New York University

 

 

Sakai OAE

Social knowledge connections for academic growth

  • Create a network of people able to answer questions and provide feedback
  • Leverage networking while maintaining full privacy and security
  • Connect shared interests with scholarly pursuits
  • Foster connections between groups of students, teachers, and researchers

 

Challenges

  • Social networking tools provide a conflict-laden answer to social academic needs
  • Academic networking must:
    • Focus on those who can help rather than on friends
    • Connect shared work interests rather than simply relationships
    • Honor privacy and safety

 

Importance

  • The sociality of knowing is fundamental to learning and investigation
  • Academic communities cohere around shared investigation
  • Social assessment models drive peer review and scholarly societies
  • Social learning models ignite study groups, mentoring and sharpening exchanges between colleagues