DESIGNING for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning 

 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University ,  2004 
 - 451 p. 
<br/><br/> PART I Coming to Terms With Community  1. Introduction: Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning - Sasha A. Barab, Rob Kling and James H. Gray  2. Online Learning Communities: Common Ground and Critical Differences in Designing Technical Environments - Margaret Riel and Linda Polin  PART II Designing for Web-Supported Community  3. Designing System  Dualities: characterizing an Online Professional Development Community - Sasha A. Barab, James G. Makinster and Rebecca Scheckler  4. Group Behavior and Learning in Electronic Forums: A Socio-Technical Approach - Rob Kling and Christina Courtright  5. Teacher Professional Development, Technology, and Communities of Practice: Are We Putting the Cart before the Horse? - Mark S. Schlager and Judith Fusco  6. Community of Practice: A Metaphor for Online Design? - Thomas M. Schwen and Noriko Hara  PART III Fostering Community / Member Participation  7. The Centrality of Culture and Community to Participant Learning at and with The Math Forum - K. Ann Renninger and Wesley Shumar  8. An Exploration of Community in a Knowledge Forum Classroom: An Activity System Analysis - Jim Hewitt  9. Co-Evolution of Technological Design and Pedagogy in an Online Learning Community - Amy Bruckman  10. From Ambitions Vision to Partially Satisfying Reality: An Evolving Socio-Technical Design Supporting Community and Collaborative Learning in Teacher Education- Sharon J. Derry, Jennifer Seymour, Constance Steinkuehler, Julia Lee and Marcelle A. Siegel  PART IV Researching Online Community  11. Scholarly Networks as Learning Communities: The Case of TechNet - Emmanuel F. Koku and Barry Wellman  12. Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis: An Approach to Researching Online Behavior - Susan C. Herring  13. Shared "We" and Shared "They" Indicators of Group Identity in Online Teacher Professional Development - Kirk Job-Sluder and Sasha A. Barab  14. Sociocultural Analysis of Online Professional Development: A case Study of Personal, Interpersonal, Community, and Technical Aspects - James H. gray and Deborah Tatar 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521520819 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Educação a Distância<br/>Internet<br/>Tecnologia da Informação