Building virtual communities : learning and change in cyberspace /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=112509 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: virtual communities for learning and development: a look to the past and some glimpses into the future / Michael Cole
- pt. 1. Types of community. The mystery of the death of MediaMOO: seven years of evolution of an online community / Amy Bruckman and Carlos Jensen
- Female voices in virtual reality: drawing young girls into an on-line world / Ann Locke Davidson and Janet Ward Shofield
- Community building with and for teachers at the math forum / K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar
- Learning in the virtual community depends upon changes in local communities / Beverly Hunter
- pt. 2. Structures and community. Evolution of an on-line education community of practice / Mark S. Schlager, Judith Fusco and Patricia Schank
- Building social networks via computer networks: creating and sustaining distributed learning communities / Caroline Haythornthwaite
- Mask and identity: the hermeneutics of self construction in the information age / Dorian Wiszniewski and Richard Coyne
- WISE learning communities: design considerations / Alex J. Cuthbert, Douglas B. Clark and Marcia C. Linn
- pt. 3. Possibilities for community. Reflexive modernization and the emergence of wired self-help / Roger Burrows and Sarah Nettleton
- Understanding the life cycles of network-based learning communities / James Levin and Raoul Cervantes
- Learning in cyberspace: an educational view of virtual community / D. Jason Nolan and Joel Weiss
- Finding the ties that bind: tools in support of a knowledge-building community / Christopher Hoadley and Roy D. Pea
- Afterword: building our knowledge of virtual community: some responses / David Hakken
- Afterword: building, buying, or being there: imagining online community / Steven G. Jones.