Online Learning Communities

2004 ◽  
pp. 16-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Riel ◽  
Linda Polin
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Online Learning Communities

scholarly journals Faculty Online Learning Communities to support physics teaching

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Rundquist ◽  
Joel C. Corbo ◽  
Stephanie Chasteen ◽  
Mathew "Sandy" Martinuk ◽  
Charles R. Henderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Physics Teaching ◽  
Online Learning Communities

scholarly journals Taking a Stand against Cyberbullying in Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 197-235
Author(s):  
Margaret Anne Carter ◽  
Marie M'Balla-Ndi ◽  
Ariella van Luyn ◽  
Donna Goldie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Action Research ◽  
University Students ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ongoing Development

As a result of the rapid online expansion of digital learnscapes, resulting in university students regularly engaging in online learning communities, cyberbullying has increasing potential to become a serious issue for higher education institutions. The effectiveness of educating students and staff in higher education on the elements and impacts of cyberbullying has driven this innovative study, which involves the development of an action research-led and student-directed interactive educational website to inform higher education students and staff about the consequences of cyberbullying. In describing the ongoing development and generalisation of the site, this chapter highlights the third cycle of an action research inquiry, and more generally the need for such resources to support higher education so that users understand what constitutes cybersafety and cyberbullying. As such, the research is directed toward understanding, sharing, participation, reflection, and change. Findings are discussed in relation to the information on the site for users in higher education.

Online Learning Communities

2014 ◽  
pp. 107-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Inghilterra ◽  
William Samuel Ravatua-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Digital Ecosystem ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
Mediation System

This chapter highlights the potential of educational microblogging as a mediation system to support the process of distance learning. In their experimental approach, the authors conducted participant observations with university students who used their pedagogical device over the course of two semesters. Students participated through peer-to-peer and peer-to-peer to tutor interactions that took place within the academic and personal spheres. In the research corpus, the communitarian dynamic of social networks combined with playful immersion is a fruitful heuristic for individualizing learning paths and strengthening student dedication and commitment. The digital ethnographic participant observations revealed that the sharing and dissemination of information via microblogging allowed the creation of new collaborative methods and development of a culture of participation within the community of student learners. The use of sociotechnical devices such as Twitter and microblogging have proven to be excellent tools for accustoming students to Web 2.0 technologies and ensuring optimal participation in the learning process. This chapter unveils a successful approach to constructing a digital ecosystem where social interactions are initiated (during real-time synchronous educational sessions) and extended outside of academic boundaries into the private sphere. The sociotechnical mediation that the authors have created around Twitter has proven to be very effective in linking these two spatio-temporally contiguous entities for the benefit of learning communities.

Community of Inquiry in Adult Online Learning

2010 ◽  
pp. 474-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Akyol ◽  
D. Randy Garrison
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Adult Online Learning

The adult education literature emphasizes communitybuilding in order to increase effectiveness and success ofonline teaching and learning. In this chapter theCommunity of Inquiry Framework that was developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000) has been introduced as a promising theory for adult learning in onlineenvironments. The chapter discusses the potential of the CoI framework to create effective adult online learning communities by utilizing the research findings from anonline course. Overall, the research findings showed that students had positive attitudes toward the communitydeveloped in the course and that their perception of constituting elements of the community of inquiry was significantly related to perceived learning and satisfaction.

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