Post on 01-Nov-2014
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Building Online Community
Community Community online and offline…online and offline…
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Community
Number 1 complaint of online students: not enough peer interaction…Distance Education at One Alaskan University: A Case Study (Schrum, Ohler, 2003)
Community, where we:
•work
• live
• learn
• play
• tell stories
Community, where we feel:
•safe
•connected
•integrated
•normed
•synergized
Community theory:
•solidary
•neighborhoods
•personal networks
•embedded, expanded
Welcome to Cyburbia-
- home of the online experience -
Seeing technology...
We use the new to do
the work of the old…
before new art &
communi-cation forms
emerge…McLuhan
New media:
•Expands limits what we can do, be
•Regains what is lost, expands what is gained
New media:
•redefines taboo, tradition
•interlational communication
•from hierarchy to adhocracy
New media:
•lack of meta-info
•20 ways to say coffee
•when we read online text we read ourselves
New media:
•community is both product and process
•stories hold communities together
Tips for creating online
learning communitiesAnd teaching
effectively online…
• conference metaphors
• Hall’s 4 social spaces:
1 - Teach unfamiliar in terms of familiar…
Public Social Private Intimate
• capture formal AND informal
• seminar AND hallway
• office hours?
• small groups, 1-to-1 (email)
2 - Use many social setting metaphors…
• clear expectations, checkins
• synchronous? self-paced? scheduled?
• min/max online involvement?
• authentication?
3 - Clarify structure, expectations…
- assign roles: (note taker, discussion coordinator, researcher, etc.)
- use peer review, jigsawing, methods
of interdependence
4 - Delegate roles & responsibility
- reflection on content, process
- journaling, blogging
- proof of content “mastery”
- use “copy&paste proof” assignments
5 - Require reflection, evidence of learning…
- coach, cheerleader, referee
- attendence taker, task master
- (participant) observer
- guide on side
- tech help
- quality controller
6 - Teacher assumes many roles…
- use meta-references (news, websites)
- extend campus electronically
- mailed DVDs
- meet once?
- students post pics, movies, stories
7 - Blend media, personalize space
- we forget lectures, remember stories
- stories in content context
- students as learning heroes
- transformation = learning
8 - Practice storytelling