[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA 2013 post mortem - Part A

[Vear, Gary D]

Hi Mark,

I'm not sure where the need for clarification comes from.

It seems to me that both the study design and textbook clearly refer to types of online communities in the same way, with each source including the following three:
(1) social,
(2) professional/work-based and
(3) project/interest-based.

In turn, each of these three types of communities supports, to varying degrees, three main purposes:
(1) collaboration,
(2) knowledge sharing, and
(3) collective identity.

Since answer D (knowledge-sharing) to question 1 is a purpose (and not a type) of online communities, it can safely be ruled out as a potential answer.

The question specifically asks for a "type of online community." Only A (social) and C (project-based) represent types of online communities as expressed in the study design and textbook, so it comes down to a choice between them. Given the scenario, C strikes me as the best alternative.

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On 7 November 2013 11:07, Vear, Gary D <vear.gary.d at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:vear.gary.d at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
if we accept the textbook classification of online communities.

Do we? If you are referring specifically to the Potts textbook's classification, remember that no textbook is gospel.

The study design says in U3O1 KK 1, "types and purposes of online communities including social, work-based, project/interest-based that
support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity."

This is actually ambiguous. Does it it mean ...

"types and purposes of online communities including
(i) social,
(ii) work-based,
(iii) project/interest-based that support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity."

Or does it mean...

"types and purposes of online communities including
(i) social,
(ii) work-based,
(iii) project/interest-based
that (all) support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity."

I read it the second way.

Did you read it the first way?

If you read it the first way, it implies that only a project/interest-based community supports collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity!
Neither the social nor work-based communities have need of these things. That does not make a lot of sense to me.

Perhaps Paula can clarify the interpretation of the KK.

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