Print Email Facebook Twitter Social Media to Foster Self-Organized Participatory Learning for Disengaged Learners Title Social Media to Foster Self-Organized Participatory Learning for Disengaged Learners Author De Vries, P. Hennis, T.A. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Department Infrastructures, Systems and Services Date 2013-02-11 Abstract The reAct project described in this paper is an innovative learning approach developed and used to remotivate the disengaged from education and learning to connect to lifelong learning practices. These youngsters constitute a considerable social problem in Europe and the aim of the project is to find ways to recover the intrinsic motivation to learn and thereby improve the opportunities for participation. Key in this innovative strategy is selforganized learning, the learner in control of the learning process. The paper starts with an introduction on the challenge these dropouts pose to the society at large and the learning strategy developed to cope with this matter. The usage of media in the methodology is crucial and links to the concept of a user-configurable Personal Learning Environment (PLE). The main research issues are: can reAct change the attitude, what are the benefits and drawbacks of this self-organized learning approach and do the ICT tools support these processes. This paper covers the first half of the project and reflects on the first rather positive experiences. Subject disengaged learnersdrop outssocial mediaself-organized learningreAct projectparticipatory design To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6425bc13-0337-4c75-9334-efac97477aa4 DOI https://doi.org/10.3991/ijac.v6i1.2211 Publisher International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) ISSN 1867-5565 Source International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning, 6 (1), 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s)Creative Commons BY Files PDF 294896.pdf 822.79 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6425bc13-0337-4c75-9334-efac97477aa4/datastream/OBJ/view