Community Construction in the Virtual: Reconceptualizing Joint Action

Autor/inn/en	Leander, Kevin; Duncan, Barbara
Titel	Community Construction in the Virtual: Reconceptualizing Joint Action
Quelle	In: E-Learning, 1 (2004) 3, S.420-436 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1741-8887
Schlagwörter	Computer Simulation; Online Courses; Network Analysis; Social Networks; Educational Environment; Educational Theories; Educational Philosophy; Educational Practices; Information Technology; Virtual Classrooms; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Teaching Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Online course; Online-Kurs; Netzplantechnik; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungspraxis; Informationstechnologie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Analyzing the activity of a group of students involved in an online university course with a simulation environment, this article considers and problematizes the idea of online community and its relations to learning. The analysis builds upon Dewey's conception of organic community and related perspectives. In valuing "joint action," such perspectives bury the relational nature of community construction under more concrete and stable notions of common mediating artifacts, geographic locations and membership among diverse communities. When the held-in-common is destabilized in the virtual, relations of student learning to community construction must be significantly reconceptualized. Moreover, for participants the meanings of "online" and "offline" activities and communities are interwoven within the process of interpretation, and should be understood as developing through this tension. Students and instructors alike face significant challenges in forging new online democratic learning environments. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10