Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Building Sense of Community at a Distance

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This article proposes that "Educators who perceive the value of social bonds in the learning process must re-conceptualize how a sense of community can be stimulated in virtual classrooms." The article then works through a number of now familiar elements of online communities - including trust, social presence, and social equality, among others - and argues that the same sort of community found in the classroom can also be found online.

Today: 1 Total: 1393 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: May 06, 2024 10:51 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes