Distributed engagement with courses and other units of learning

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by Scott Wilson
"First of all, I'm afraid I'm going to have to introduce a new bit of terminology. From now on instead of courses I'm going to talk about shared learning contexts (SLCs). Courses are a good word to describe a lot of things in formal education, but isn't broad enough to cover similar groups of functionality in informal settings, so this is a new term to cover anything that provides a space where a group of people engage in learning, whether informal or formal, and wether or not there is any sort of assessed outcome.

So what does a SLC typically contain? Well, looking across the range of LMSs, course websites, and the like, I think a reasonable starting list would look like this..."