Beyond Friending: BuddyPress and the Social, Networked, Open-Source Classroom

Authors

Matthew K. Gold, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

Classrooms have always been networks, of a sort, with professors and students forming an interlaced series of nodes that take shape over the course of a semester, but tools like BuddyPress and WordPress can make those networks more open, more porous, and more varied. In very useful ways, the classroom-as-social-network can help create engaging spaces for learning in which students are more connected to one another, to their professors, and to the wider world.

Comments

This work was originally published in "Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy," edited by Trebor Scholz.