Learning in a distributed virtual community: initial findings and exploratory analysis

Gonçalves, Nelson; Dias, Paulo

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Gonçalves, Nelson

Dias, Paulo

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This paper presents findings from a research project that aims to build an understanding of how the informal experience of knowledge contributes to the construction of formal knowledge by producing a “thick description” of the Blender learning ecosystem, articulating its socio-technical landscape, the actors and the networks, based on the trajectories of participation and learning of blenderheads and the researcher’s own experience. Initial exploratory analysis of the semiotic domain, affiliation groups and affiliation spaces and the researcher's personal learning environment are presented to argue for the advantage of combining different strategies for the mapping of a community and to start characterizing the Blender community