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uSpace Pilot SOMLAL
Multicultural Society in the Netherlands
February 2009
Henriette Louwerse
Project aims
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Content
Virtual Collaboration
Using Electronic Learning Environment
Video conferencing
Reflection
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Multicultural Society in the Netherlands
http://uspace.shef.ac.uk/clearspace/community/multiculti?view=overview
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What we’ve learned:
• There must be clear added value to using
uSpace
• Open-ended topics work better
• Contribution and collaboration must be
part of the assessment
• Tutor must be present and leave traces
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Student involvement:
• I must admit that I have become somewhat addicted
to the whole 'uspace' phenomon and have really
enjoyed working in this online environment.
• I left the video conference with the most strange
feeling...I could not believe it was over. After the
weeks of work and daily checking of Uspace we had
made it.
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Student comments:
After initial scepticism, I found that this
was technology employed at its best,
complementing the research and fostering
a real sense of team work and enterprise.
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Student comments:
This project has really opened my eyes to
the multicultural debate. I mean at the
beginning I did not know how to even
define multiculturalism! Then weeks later
to have participated in a discussion about
it shows just how much you can achieve in
a short space of time.
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Virtual Dutch Multicultural Project 2009
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