Social:Online learning community
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According to Etienne Wenger, online learning communities are environments conducive to communities of practice.[1]
Categories
Types of online learning communities include e-learning communities (groups interact and connect solely via technology) and blended learning communities (groups utilize face-to-face meetings as well as online meetings). Based on Riel and Polin (2004), intentional online learning communities may be categorized as knowledge-based, practice-based, and task-based. Online learning communities may focus on personal aspects, process, or technology. They may use technology and tools in many categories:
- synchronous (such as instant messaging or language exchange websites and mobile applications
- asynchronous (such as message boards and Internet forums)
- blogs
- course management
- collaborative (such as wikis)
- social networking
- social learning
- online university
- skills and language exchange platforms
List of online learning communities
- Alison
- Codewars
- Coursera
- Curriki
- edX
- freeCodeCamp
- FutureLearn
- France université numérique (FUN)
- iversity
- Kadenze
- Khan Academy
- LinkedIn Learning
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- OpenLearning
- Peer 2 Peer University
- Quora
- Skillshare
- Stack Exchange — Stack Overflow
- SWAYAM
- Udacity
- Udemy
- Wikimedia — Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, WikiEducator, and more.
See also
- Community language learning
- Community of practice
- List of online educational resources
- List of (MOOC) Massive Open Online Course providers
- Massive open online course
- University of the People
- Virtual education
- Virtual world language learning
References
- ↑ Wenger, Etienne (1998). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-66363-2.
Bibliography
- Barab, S.; Duffy, T. (2000). "From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice". Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments. LEA. http://sashabarab.com/research/onlinemanu/papers/commun.pdf.
- Bryant, S. L.; Forte, A.; Bruckman, A. (2005). "Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia". Conference on Supporting Group Work. Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work. Florida. doi:10.1145/1099203.1099205.
- Hill, J.; Raven A. (October 10, 2000). ITFORUM PAPER #46 - Online Learning Communities: If You Build Them, Will They Stay?. ITFORUM. Archived from the original on October 27, 2000. https://web.archive.org/web/20001027221834/http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper46/paper46.htm.
- "Building Communities – Strategies for Collaborative Learning". ASTD's Source for E-Learning. 2002. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100823105633/http://www.astd.org/LC/2002/0802_kaplan.htm.
- Resta, P.; LaFerriere, T. (2007). "Technology in Support of Collaborative Learning". Educational Psychology Review 19: 65–83. doi:10.1007/s10648-007-9042-7.
- Riel, M.; Polin, L. (2004). "Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning". Online learning communities: Common ground and critical differences in designing technical environments. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 16–50.
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