[LINK] RFI: How should virtual group members interact with one another?

[Tom Worthington]

On 18/8/20 3:47 pm, Roger Clarke wrote:

> ... channel for communications among members ...

Every time I sign up to mentor a hackerthon, teach an online course, or
collaborate on some research, I end up on another one of these
platforms. Today it was podio.com for the ZeroCO2 Hackathon. As far as I
can tell it is like Slack, but with more tasking features.

The hot area for such products is to provide real time video
conferencing within the product. So far no one has got it quite right.
This is what I would call the synchronization of asynchronous
communications. I wrote a series of papers on that but no one had a clue
what I was on about, including me . ;-)
https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/student-research-projects/async-sync-learning-system

ps: Touching on this in my talk for Canada at 8am Wednesday:
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2020/08/webinar-on-tools-to-engage-students.html


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