Designing virtual communities in the service of learning

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Title:

Designing virtual communities in the service of learning

Author:

Kling, Rob.

ISBN:

9780521817554

9780521520812

Publication Information:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Physical Description:

xxv, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Learning in doing

Series Title:

Learning in doing

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Distance education -- Computer-assisted instruction.

Internet in education.

Virtual reality in education.

Cognition and culture.

Added Author:

Kling, Rob.

Gray, James H.

Barab, Sasha A.

Electronic Access:

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Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003051524.html
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Summary

While many of us are concerned with the loss of communal spaces and ties that broaden one's sense of self beyond the 'me' or 'I' and into the 'we' and 'us', less clear are the educational advantages of a community approach in terms of learning curricular content. The chapters in this 2004 volume explore the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions with respect to designing for and researching web-based communities to support learning. The authors, coming from diverse academic backgrounds (computer science, information science, instructional systems technology, educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology), are frank in examining what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support learning. Taken as a collection, these manuscripts point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for web-supported community, especially when the focal practice of the community is learning.