This document discusses building an online learning community called the Edinburgh Napier Educat Exchange. It provides rationale for the project, including supporting ongoing workshop participants and staff collaboration. Key proposed system features include blogging, collaborative page creation, groups, and file sharing to enable discussion forums, sharing teaching resources and activities, and providing a shared workspace for internal and external collaborative groups.

1. Social Not-working?
Evaluating and building an online
learning community
Colin Gray & Keith Smyth, Edinburgh Napier University

2. The Edinburgh Napier Educat
Exchange
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3. Project Rationale
Workshop participants requiring
continuing, long term support
Staff projects requiring a collaboration
resource
Communication across school and faculty
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4. System Features
Blogging
Collaborative page creation
Groups
File sharing
Bookmarking
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9. Answer Count Percent
Discussion forums within groups 19 43.18%
Keeping up to date with teaching & learning activities currently happening 17 38.64%
within Edinburgh Napier.
Providing a shared collaborative space for groups involving internal and 13 29.55%
external members
Sharing education resources 12 27.27%
Other, please state: 11 25%
Use of the group tool as an online presence for projects or initiatives 10 22.73%
Admin file sharing (eg. project documents, policies, etc) 6 13.64%
Blogging 5 11.36%
Use of groups as an online presence for Teaching Fellows Special Interest 5 11.36%
Groups
Media sharing (eg. images 3 6.82%
Creation of web pages 2 4.55%
Instant communication (eg. the wire or ENEE personal messages) 2 4.55%
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