Community Online

Papers:

Bauman M. Online Learning Communities.

Chromatic. 2002. Building Online Communities. The O'Reilly Network.

Hafner K. 1997. The Epic Saga of the Well: The World's Most Influential Online Community (And It's Not AOL) Wired Magazine.

Haythornwaite C. 1998. A Social Network Study of the Growth of Community Among Distance Learners. Paper given at IRISS '98, Bristol, UK.

King LJ. 2000. 'Gender Issues in Online Communities' CPSR Newsletter.

Rheingold H. 1998. Building Fun Online Learning Communities.

Timms D, Ferlander S, & Timms E. 2001. Building Communities: Online Education and Social Capital.

Examples of Online Communities:

Education with New Technologies is a networked learning community designed to help educators develop, enact and assess effective ways of using new technologies.

Holli Harlow On Line Learning Initiative

StudentNet is a non-profit online service provided by educators for the Australian education community.

Wellspring is an online community of distance educators.