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Building Online Learning Communities:

Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom (Google eBook)
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John Wiley & Sons, Jul 20, 2007 - Education - 292 pages
Building Online Learning Communities further explores the development of virtual classroom environments that foster a sense of community and empower students to take charge of their learning to successfully achieve learning outcomes. This is the second edition of the groundbreaking book by Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt and has been completely updated and expanded to include the most current information on effective online course development and delivery. A practical, hands-on guide, this resource is filled with illustrative case studies, vignettes, and examples from a wide variety of successful online courses. The authors offer proven strategies for handling challenges that include:

  • Engaging students in the formation of an online learning community.
  • Establishing a sense of presence online.
  • Maximizing participation.
  • Developing effective courses that include collaboration and reflection.
  • Assessing student performance.

Written for faculty in any distance learning environment, this revised edition is based on the authorsâ many years of work in faculty development for online teaching as well as their extensive personal experience as faculty in online distance education. Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt share insights designed to guide readers through the steps of online course design and delivery.

  

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Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, building from work which began while they were Ph.D. students in 1993, offer an educators' view of how to create and sustain effective online learning opportunities which ... Read full review

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Contents

When Teaching and Learning Leave the Classroom
3
Online Issues and Concerns
6
Students Online
8
Making the Transition and Establishing Presence
10
The Search for Knowledge and Meaning in the Online Classroom
15
Putting the Pieces Together
17
New Approaches New Skills
19
Implications
22
Constructing the Online Course Site
144
If You Build It Will They Come?
150
Final Thoughts
153
Evaluating an Effective Online Course
154
Promoting Collaborative Learning
157
Formulating a Shared Goal for Learning
159
Problems Interests and Experiences as Springboards for Learning
167
Dialogue as Inquiry
170

Recontextualizing Community
25
The Importance of Community
27
Community Online
28
The Element of Social Presence
30
Coalescense and Belonging Online
32
Recontextualizing Community
34
Community in the Virutal Classroom
39
Participation and Desired Outcomes in the Online Classroom
42
The Human Side of Online Learning
45
The Need for Human Contact
48
Connectedness and Coalescence
50
Shared Responsibility Rules and Norms
51
Roles and Participants
53
Other Psychological Issues
55
Ritual as the Psychological Expression of Community
56
Spiritual Issues
58
Culture and Language Issues
60
Vulnerability Ethics and Privacy
61
Final Thoughts
64
Practical Considerations in Online Learning
67
Group Size
81
Cost and Other Adminstrative Issues
84
Online Security
87
Managing the Relationship to Technology
89
The Relationship of Person to Machine
91
Technology as a Facilitative Tool
96
Excuse Us We Are Now Experiencing Technical Diffulties
101
Moving Teaching and Learning Online
105
Roles and Functions of the Instructor in the Online Classroom
107
The Role of the Learner in the Learning Process
119
The Hybrid Course and Online Community
125
Teaching and Learning in the Virtual Learning Community
127
Building Foundations
129
Encouraging Expansive Questioning
171
Sharing Responsibility for Facilitation
173
Promoting Feedback
176
Intergroup and Other Forms of Collaboration
180
Final Thoughts
183
Transformative Learning
185
The Process of Transformative Learning in the Online Classroom
187
Learning About Learning Through the Use of Technology
192
Creating Opportunities to Encourage Reflection on the Differences
194
Learning About Technology by Using It
195
Encouraging Questions and Comments About the Technology
196
SelfReflection
198
We Are the Experts When It Comes to Our Own Learning
202
Guiding Questions to Promote Tranformative Learning
203
Student Assessment and Course Evaluation
205
Student Performance
206
Course Evaluation
216
Program Evaluation
220
Final Thoughts
224
Questions to Consider in Student Course and Program Evaluation
225
Lessons Learned and a Look Ahead
227
The Six Essential Elements
228
Community
231
Unresolved Issues and Unaswered Questions
232
Lessons Learned and a Look to the Future
235
Extending Community Beyond the Classroom
236
Implications for Instructor Training
237
Examples of Course Syllabi
239
Glossary of Terms Used in Online Learning
271
Internet Resources for Distant Education
275
References
277
Index
285
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About the author (2007)

Rena M. Palloff, Ph.D., and Keith Pratt, Ph.D. are the managing partners of Crossroads Consulting Group. They are the authors of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace, Collaborating Online, Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom, and The Virtual Student, all from Jossey-Bass.

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