Coming To Terms With Community: -- Introduction: designing for virtual communities in the service of learning / Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling and James H. Gray -- Online learning in communities: Common ground and critical differences in designing technical environments / Margaret Riel and Linda Polin -- Designing for Web-supported Community: -- Designing system dualities: Characterizing an online Professional Development Community / Sasha A. Barab, James G. MaKinster and Rebecca Scheckler -- Group behavior and learning in electronic forums: A Socio-technical approach / Rob Kling and Christina Courtright -- Teacher professional development, technology and communities: Are we putting the cart before the horse? / Mark S. Schlager and Judith Fusco -- Community of practice: a metaphor for online design? / Thomas M. Schwen and Noriko Hara -- Fostering Community/Member Participation: -- The centrality of culture and community to participant learning at and with the math forum / K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar --

An exploration of community in a knowledge forum classroom: an activity system analysis / Jim Hewitt -- Co-evolution of technological design and pedagogy in an online learning community / Amy Bruckman -- From ambitious vision to partially satisfying reality: an evolving socio-technical design supporting community and collaborative learning in teaching education / Sharon J. Derry, Jennifer Seymour, Constance Steinkuehler, Julia Lee, and Marcelle A. Siegel -- Researching Online Community: -- Scholarly networks as learning communities: The case of TechNet / Emmanuel F. Koku and Barry Wellman -- Computer-mediated discourse analysis: an approach to researching online communities / Susan Herring -- Shared 'we' and shared 'they' indicators of group identity in online teacher professional development / Kirk Job-Sluder and Sasha A. Barab -- Sociocultural analysis of online professional development: a case study of personal, interpersonal, community, and technical aspects / James H. Gray and Deborah Tatar.