| Description |
xxv, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Learning in doing |
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Learning in doing.
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| 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 -- |
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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 |
| Summary |
This volume explores the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions relevant to designing for and researching web-based communities to support the learning process. Coming from diverse academic backgrounds, the authors examine what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support educational processes. Taken as a collection, the chapters point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for a web-supported community, especially when the focal practice of the community is learning |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Distance education -- Computer-assisted instruction.
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Internet in education.
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Virtual reality in education.
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Cognition and culture.
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| Author |
Kling, Rob.
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Gray, James H.
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Barab, Sasha A.
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| LC no. |
2003051524 |
| ISBN |
0521817552 |
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0521520819 pb |
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