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Article: CATEGORIES OF VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL DESIGN
- Article from:
- Quarterly Review of Distance Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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CopyrightCopyright Information Age Publishing, Inc. Winter 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Developing rich learning environments using computer-mediated communication and strategies to connect individuals in various ways is a major challenge within educational technology. Creating virtual learning communities is recognized as a potential means of building commonalties and connections essential to education and society. Knowledge of instructional design does not provide the necessary understanding of learning environments and human interaction required to allow learning communities to form (Schwier, 2001). This discussion presents a topology of virtual learning communities within formal and informal learning environments to advance knowledge of educational design. Next, this paper ...