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Here are some important characteristics of connected learning model :
1- Interest-driven
When a subject is particularly interesting and relevant, learners tend to achieve higher learning outcomes.
2- Peer-supported
When working and collaborating with other peers ,students become highly engaged and learn more.
3- Academically oriented
When academia relates to students immediate learning needs and interest-driven pursuits, learners blossom and realize their real potential.
4- Production centred :
Connected learning prioritizes the learning that helps students produce, create, experiment, and design, a learning that promotes skills and life long learning dispositions.
5- Shared purpose
Connected learners share the same purpose which is that of thriving around common goals and interests via leveraging the several opportunities of cross cultural and cross generational learning that social media and web-based communities provide….
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