Participation under Compulsion

Abstract

Benefits of Social Software in teaching and learning are a research subject of great interest, especially in higher education. Even though the opportunities to encourage studentsâ?? participation are promising, there is a neglected area we intend to illuminate: heteronomy. Compulsion and external control are used to foster participation. In our study we examined 16 international evaluation and research papers which describe the implementation of Social Software to enhance studentsâ?? participation within courses. Several contradictions within these descriptions were revealed. One may realise that students pretend to â??play the game