In this episode I unpack Kafai and Peppler’s (2011) article titled “Beyond small groups: New opportunities for research in computer-supported collective learning,” which is an analysis of participation within the Scratch community that compares and contrasts collaborative learning (i.e., learning within small groups) with collective learning (i.e., learning within massive groups).

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00:00 Intro

00:49 Abstract

01:52 My one sentence summary

02:06 Paper introduction

04:18 What is collective learning?

05:26 Findings

09:26 Collaborative vs collective learning

14:23 Discussion

15:49 Lingering questions and thoughts

15:55 How might educators encourage both collaborative and collective learning in a shared space?

17:31 How might we encourage collective learning that builds off of prior efforts?

20:12 Who has access to view or contribute to such a space or community?

20:59 Outro