[Air-l] references on Virtual Learning communities

[Laura O'Grady]

>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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