This article reviews recent evaluation studies of online learning communities to provide a
systematic understanding of how such communities are evaluated. Forty-two representative …

As technologies change, the forms of CMC evolve. Sometimes there is divergence, for
example, the newer audiovisual possibilities to contrast with the purely text-based, while in …

Recent literature on online learning gives credence to the difficulty inherent in
understanding the sense of online community. Quantitative studies especially have …

Networked learning communities have attracted the attention of educators partly due to the
growth of on-line learning. Serving to provide recommendations for practitioners who will …

A community is not an entity or a product. Rather, it is a process, which is fluid in nature. A
community evolves through nurturing conditions. It “requires a highly interactive, loosely …

A group of graduate students and an instructor at the University of Saskatchewan
experimented with the use of synchronous communication (chat) and asynchronous …

This paper presents strategies and rationales for implementing certain instructional
techniques to move a class from cohort to community. The context is the new Distance …

We presume that models and theory in instructional design inform professional practice, but
theory has not been consistently built from the professional experiences of instructional …

Literature suggests that developing a community of learners is the key to a successful
onlinelearning experience. In this study, the instructor of a multimedia authoring course …

Anyone who can access the Internet can be part of the knowledge-access, knowledge-
building, information-exchanging culture, regardless of location. Time magazine's latest" …