Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning / edited by Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling, James H. Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barab, Sasha A.

Kling, Rob.

Gray, James H.

Series:

Learning in doing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distance education--Computer-assisted instruction.

Distance education.

Internet in education.

Virtual reality in education.

Cognition and culture.

Physical Description:

xxv, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Contents:

In Memoriam: From AI (Artificial Intelligence) to SI (Social Informatics): Rob Kling's Intellectual Odyssey xxi

Part I Coming to Terms with Community

1 Introduction: Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning / Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling, James H. Gray 3

2 Online Learning Communities: Common Ground and Critical Differences in Designing Technical Environments / Margaret Riel, Linda Polin 16

Part II Designing for Web-Supported Community

3 Designing System Dualities: Characterizing an Online Professional Development Community / Sasha A. Barab, James G. MaKinster, Rebecca Scheckler 53

4 Group Behavior and Learning in Electronic Forums: A Socio-Technical Approach / Rob Kling, Christina Courtright 91

5 Teacher Professional Development, Technology, and Communities of Practice: Are We Putting the Cart before the Horse? / Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco 120

6 Community of Practice: A Metaphor for Online Design? / Thomas M. Schwen, Noriko Hara 154

Part III Fostering Community/Member Participation

7 The Centrality of Culture and Community to Participant Learning at and with The Math Forum / K. Ann Renninger, Wesley Shumar 181

8 An Exploration of Community in a Knowledge Forum Classroom: An Activity System Analysis / Jim Hewitt 210

9 Co-Evolution of Technological Design and Pedagogy in an Online Learning Community / Amy Bruckman 239

10 From Ambitious Vision to Partially Satisfying Reality: An Evolving Socio-Technical Design Supporting Community and Collaborative Learning in Teacher Education / Sharon J. Derry, Jennifer Seymour, Constance Steinkuehler, Julia Lee, Marcelle A. Siegel 256

Part IV Researching Online Community

11 Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities: The Case of TechNet / Emmanuel F. Koku, Barry Wellman 299

12 Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior / Susan C. Herring 338

13 Shared "We" and Shared "They" Indicators of Group Identity in Online Teacher Professional Development / Kirk Job-Sluder, Sasha A. Barab 377

14 Sociocultural Analysis of Online Professional Development: A Case Study of Personal, Interpersonal, Community, and Technical Aspects / James H. Gray, Deborah Tatar 404.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521817552

0521520819

OCLC:

52134839

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