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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2001
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED463725 |
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- Building Community in an Online Learning Environment: Communication, Cooperation and Collaboration. Misanchuk, Melanie Anderson, Tiffany Computer Mediated Communication Computer Uses in Education Cooperative Learning Distance Education Educational Environment Educational Technology Evaluation Methods Higher Education Instructional Design Interaction Teaching Methods This paper presents strategies and rationales for implementing certain instructional techniques to move a class from cohort to community. The context is the new Distance Master's program in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University. The authors give suggestions for instructional and non-instructional strategies that have students interacting at the levels of communication, cooperation, and collaboration. Instructional strategies include: ways of presenting material; assignment design; team management; content covered; and strategies for discussion material. Non-instructional strategies include: creating a computer support system so that students look beyond the technology; making reserve readings and other library resources readily available to distance students; designing an onsite orientation that encourages students to quickly bond with each other at the beginning of the program; creating an online cafe for off-topic discussions; and dealing with team/class disputes. These strategies are cross-indicated with their intended outcomes, i.e., strengthening the feeling of community as defined by a set of characteristics. Suggestions for evaluation techniques are also presented, as are questions for further research. (Contains 55 references.) (Author/MES)