[Air-l] references on Virtual Learning communities

[Radhika Gajjala]

Thanks - and from now on I will wait to thank everyone who emails me 
after I have a bunch:)

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>>Do you know of any authoritative articles/references that can 
>>support the usefulness of virtual learning communities.
>>
>>I am interested in potential benefits for teachers sharing their 
>>experiences in math and science teaching.
>
>I would take a look at Barab's work, either
>
>Barab, S. A., MaKinster, J. G., Moore, J. A., & Cunningham, D. J. 
>(2001). Designing and building an on-line community: The struggle to 
>support sociability in the Inquiry Learning Forum. from 
>http://inkido.indiana.edu/research/onlinemanu/papers/etrdilf.pdf
>
>or
>
>Barab, S. A. (2003). Designing for virtual communities in the 
>service of learning. Information Society, 19(3), 1-7.
>
>to start.
>
>Laura
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>
>Laura O'Grady
>Ph.D. Candidate
>OISE / University of Toronto
>Toronto, ON, Canada
>
>http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/
>logrady at oise.utoronto.ca
>l.ogrady at sympatico.ca
>_
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