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IRRODL: Building Sense of Community
IRRODL: Building Sense of Community at a DistanceThis article challenges the belief that strong sense of community is limited to the traditional classroom and proposes that the virtual classroom has the potential of building and sustaining sense of community at levels that are comparable to the traditional classroom. Drawing on research literature, the concept of learning community is applied to the virtual classroom by taking on the issue of how best to design and conduct an online course that fosters community among learners who are physically separated from each other. Course design principles are described that facilitate dialogue and decrease psychological distance, thereby increasing a sense of community among learners.
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community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 30, 2002
CIO: It Takes a Community
CIO: It Takes a CommunityInformal groups known as communities of practice are the latest technique for getting employees to share what they know. Here are seven ways to encourage such communities in your company.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 16, 2002
First Monday: Building Digital Communities:
First Monday: Building Digital Communities: Web-Wise 2002Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World sponsored by the U.S. Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Johns Hopkins University, 20-22 March 2002, Baltimore.
community Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Design for community: A Conversation
Design for community: A Conversation with Howard RheingoldWhat many members of the web generation don't know is that virtual community existed way before the web, and will likely exist long after it. For an inside perspective on the history of virtual communities and a glimpse at the future, there's no one better to talk with than Rheingold.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 02, 2002
Clay Shirky: Communities, Audiences, and
Clay Shirky: Communities, Audiences, and ScaleCommunities are different than audiences in fundamental human ways, not merely technological ones. You cannot simply transform an audience into a community with technology, because they assume very different relationships between the sender and receiver of messages.
community Add tag Permalink | Monday, April 08, 2002
Online Community Report: Interview with
Online Community Report: Interview with Richard McDermottBut communities are not the be all and end all of organizational design. They are just one mechanism in the toolkit of organizational design. They do not replace teams, functional departments or centers of excellence. And how organizations use and structure them is changing. I think communities of practice will become more formalized than the "pure" communities we describe in the book. We are seeing this already in many companies. So there are likely to be many different forms, just as there are many different forms of teams.
community Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Design for Community: Killing the
Design for Community: Killing the biggest myth of web designIf web writers and content managers could stop coddling their readers for a moment and challenge, engage, and interact with them instead, maybe people might just start scrolling, clicking, and, yes, reading their content. After all, if you stand in front of a room and tell everyone that no one reads what you write online, maybe the problem isn't with the users or the medium. Maybe you're just not saying anything interesting.
community Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Resource: Creating Learning Communities Welcome
Resource: Creating Learning CommunitiesWelcome to the home page of A Coalition for Self-Learning.
We are a group of people, who have dedicated ourselves to the promotion of a new educational system with the student in the center. Thirty odd members have written a book which was published in August 2000. This book is the core theme of our home page. But this on-line book is a dynamic one, and new chapters will be added regularly, and eventually a second edition may be published.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 14, 2002
OnlineCommunityReport: Interview with Marc Weiss,
OnlineCommunityReport: Interview with Marc Weiss, Web LabWeb Lab is a non-profit organization that seeks to enhance the way organizations and individuals collaborate online. Marc Weiss is the founder and Executive Producer of Web Lab.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 14, 2002
The Chronicle: A Community College
The Chronicle: A Community College Offers a Taste of Online StudySt. Petersburg College, a community college in Florida, has set up a sample online course on its Web page. The noncredit course, which covers the basics of taking an online course at the college, is brief and free to the public.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 24, 2002
Intranet Journal: Community Building as
Intranet Journal: Community Building as a Core Intranet ValueFacilitating creative dialogues between people is the Internet's greatest contribution to business culture, much more important than selling things online or lowering supply-chain costs.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 10, 2002
Intranet Journal: Community Building as
Intranet Journal: Community Building as a Core Intranet ValueFacilitating creative dialogues between people is the Internet's greatest contribution to business culture, much more important than selling things online or lowering supply-chain costs. In this article, Gordon Benett explains why.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 03, 2002
Camworld: Online Community Technologies and
Camworld: Online Community Technologies and ConceptsThe concept of an online community is very broad. It can be anything from a small close-knit group of people who email each other about a mutual hobby to a mailing list or Web site with thousands and thousands of users. There are thousands of these communities scattered across the Web, covering far too many topics to even attempt to list. Online communities are one of those subjects that encompasses a very wide spectrum of concepts. I'll try to break out a few areas that I have examples for.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, December 20, 2001
Seth Weaver Kahan: Building Community
Seth Weaver Kahan: Building Community at WorkBuilding communities in business has become a priority in knowledge-sharing organizations around the world. Communities in the workplace enable people to quickly build working relationships, share knowledge with those who need it when they need it, and perform well under stress. The warmth of community encourages everyone to share personal accountability for achieving the organization's objectives. But how is it done?...
community Add tag Permalink | Friday, October 26, 2001
APQC: Building and Sustaining Communities
APQC: Building and Sustaining Communities of Practicecommunity Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, October 17, 2001
JALN: The Process of Community-Building
JALN: The Process of Community-Building in Distance Learning ClassesLatest issue: Three-stage phenomenon was ascertained. The first stage was making friends on-line with whom students felt comfortable communicating. The second stage was community conferment (acceptance) which occurred when students were part of a long, thoughtful, threaded discussion on a subject of importance after which participants felt both personal satisfaction and kinship. The third stage was camaraderie which was achieved after long-term or intense association with others involving personal communication. Each of these stages involved a greater degree of engagement in both the class and the dialogue.
community Add tag Permalink | Monday, October 15, 2001
Inc. Guide: Online Community It
Inc. Guide: Online CommunityIt takes more than a healthy sense of corporate community to translate into a thriving online community. So at inc.com, we have put together links to a collection of resources on the subject of online community -- resources specifically targeted to small businesses.
community Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, October 10, 2001
Gerry McGovern: Are online communities
Gerry McGovern: Are online communities working?The online community model was undoubtedly over hyped. As a business model it has shown little sustainability. However, wherever there is a subject that people can get passionate about, the online community has a role to play. The Internet is the ultimate grapevine and, in particular, the organization should not ignore voices of discontent.
community Add tag Permalink | Monday, September 10, 2001
Online Community Report: Interview with
Online Community Report: Interview with Gail Ann Williams, Salon.com Furthermore, there is something so innately engaging about dialogue, especially when you know the participants and have any kind of stake in the outcome or information, that you are dealing with a serial medium, with the ads on the margins simply invisible. It's like having a discussion in your kitchen with the radio playing softly and your friends talking. Will people fall silent and shift their attention to the commercials when they come on? Almost never, no matter how hard-hitting, funny or celebrity-studded the commercials are. The conversation group is real, the radio ads are canned. And that is how a good online forum feels. Real people, freeze-dried ads.community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, September 06, 2001
Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue
Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue (via DfC)The new issue of Digital Web Magazine is up, and this one's all about web community. Check it out for an enlightening feature on evolt, a tutorial by Matt Haughey, and an interview with Derek Powazek on writing the book 'Design for Community' and designing community sites.