In less than 100 words, what is your idea?:
Using the newly released Google Wave platform, I'd like to develop an application to facilitate collaborative learning and education.
What is the social need or challenge your idea could address?:
Distance learning remains a very one-way process, often with a boring and unproductive experience. Developing an application that encourages a collaborative learning experience is now possible within the Google Wave framework.
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Re: Application for Education and Learning using Google Wave...
Great
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Re: Application for Education and Learning using Google Wave...
If you really want to see this pushed forward, I think the proposal needs more details about what specifically you want to achieve and how you will do it (features, interface, etc).
Re: Application for Education and Learning using Google Wave...
Be careful about tying yourself to a single platform that's still in a relatively experimental state. Other than that, I like the idea. I'm trying to do something similar via a codeplex project and a blog that I'm writing (with a fairly tight focus on a particular development platform and set of agile software processes), but this is something I'd like to see happening more via Orkut groups, Google Wave, Live services, Yahoo, etc.
Re: Application for Education and Learning using Google Wave...
I've been using Google Wave now for several weeks (passive-aggressively) and the more I use it the more suitable I think it could be as a platform for this distance learning application.
Participant Access:
An unlimited number of users can all view, review and edit 1 wave. I'm imagining each 'class' being conducted on a Wave.
Collaboration:
All users can be set with different roles that extend or limit the level of participation. eg.
1) students would be able to 'raise their hand' to ask a question on the Wave.
2) Teachers would be able to post a problem on the Wave and encourage users to respond individually or collaboratively to find a solution.
3) Teachers can embed presentations, images, videos into the Wave to enhance the learning experience with interactive media.
Essentially, I think we will need to build a Google Wave extension that utilises the platform's capabilities, with a user experience specific to teacher and student requirements.
Re: Application for Education and Learning using Google Wave...
Hi there,
I just wonder if you have had a chance to test google wave enough to give us a better idea of how this idea could work? Can you maybe give us an idea of what components this project would include?