Constructing community in a graduate course about teaching with technology

Falvo, David A.; Solloway, Sharon G.

doi:10.1007/bf02763532

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“…Falvo and Solloway () employed various strategies to help students develop learning communities. The strategies include informing students of the course expectations and requirements, stating explicitly the objective of creating learning communities, arranging a face‐to‐face meeting at which students familiarized themselves with technical tools that would be used and interacted with the instructor and other students, and also requested students to read a paper about online communities and then reflect on the paper.…”

Section: Guidelines For Helping Students Develop Online Learning Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To arouse students' awareness of the importance of learning communities and the difficulties in constructing them, instructors can ask learners to read papers on the importance of learning communities, difficulties that might be encountered, and learners' diverse learning preferences. After that, students can discuss the importance of learning communities, challenges to establishing learning communities, and possible solutions to the challenges (Falvo & Solloway, ). In so doing, learners will become aware that it requires an intentional effort to develop learning communities so that when they meet challenges in the future, they will not be surprised or dejected.…”

Section: Guidelines For Helping Students Develop Online Learning Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Empirical studies indicate that learning communities benefit learners in a number of ways (DiRamio & Wolverton, 2006;Falvo & Solloway, 2004;Liu et al, 2007;Yoon & Johnson, 2008). As previously stated, one of the factors causing online course dropouts is learners' having insufficient interaction with their peers and instructors.…”

Section: Importance Of a Community Of Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To arouse students' awareness of the importance of learning communities and the difficulties in constructing them, instructors can ask learners to read papers on the importance of learning communities, difficulties that might be encountered, and learners' diverse learning Koh et al 2010. Falvo andSolloway (2004) employed various strategies to help students develop learning communities. The strategies include informing students of the course expectations and requirements, stating explicitly the objective of creating learning communities, arranging a face-to-face meeting at which students familiarized themselves with technical tools that would be used and interacted with the instructor and other students, and also requested students to read a paper about online communities and then reflect on the paper.…”

Section: Guideline 1 (When): the Effort To Build A Learning Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…preferences. After that, students can discuss the importance of learning communities, challenges to establishing learning communities, and possible solutions to the challenges (Falvo & Solloway, 2004). In so doing, learners will become aware that it requires an intentional effort to develop learning communities so that when they meet challenges in the future, they will not be surprised or dejected.…”

Section: Guideline 43 (How)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Guidelines for facilitating the development of learning communities in online courses

Yuan

Kim

2014

Computer Assisted Learning

181

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Online learning has grown exponentially in recent years; however, dropout problem remains challenging for some online programmes. The dropout problem can be attributed to a number of reasons, with a lack of interaction between learners and the instructor constituting one of the main reasons. The lack of interaction also leads to learners' feeling of isolation. Learning communities can provide learners with an environment conducive to increased interactions and alleviate their feeling of isolation. Unfortunately, there are no clear rules that instructors can follow to help learners create learning communities. In this paper, we propose guidelines for online instructors to facilitate the development of learning communities in online courses. We first review the definition of a learning community, importance of a learning community and factors affecting the development of a learning community. Afterwards, based on a review of the existing guidelines and other relevant literature, we propose guidelines for facilitating the development of learning communities in online courses.

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Section: Guidelines For Helping Students Develop Online Learning Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Guidelines For Helping Students Develop Online Learning Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Importance Of a Community Of Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To arouse students' awareness of the importance of learning communities and the difficulties in constructing them, instructors can ask learners to read papers on the importance of learning communities, difficulties that might be encountered, and learners' diverse learning Koh et al 2010. Falvo andSolloway (2004) employed various strategies to help students develop learning communities. The strategies include informing students of the course expectations and requirements, stating explicitly the objective of creating learning communities, arranging a face-to-face meeting at which students familiarized themselves with technical tools that would be used and interacted with the instructor and other students, and also requested students to read a paper about online communities and then reflect on the paper.…”

Section: Guideline 1 (When): the Effort To Build A Learning Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Guideline 43 (How)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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