Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521457025 ISBN 13: 9780521457026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Students in network-based classrooms converse in writing through the use of communications software on local-area computer networks. Through the electronic medium they are immersed in a writing community--one that supports new forms of collaboration, authentic purposes for writing, writing across the curriculum, and new social relations in the classroom. The potential for collaborative and participatory learning in these classrooms is enormous. The book examines an important type of network-based classroom known as ENFI (Electronic Networks For Interaction). Teachers have set up ENFI or similar classrooms in elementary and secondary schools and at more than a hundred colleges and universities. In these settings, teaching and learning have been dramatically transformed, but the new technology has brought with it difficulties and surprises. The process of creating such a classroom raises important questions about the meaning and the realities of educational change.

About this title

Book Description

Developed at Gallaudet University to allow deaf students to communicate via a local-area computer network, variations of the Electronic Networks for Interaction system are now used at more than 100 other schools. This study examines the process's implications for the teaching curriculum.

Review

"...presents an important contribution that will facilitate future explorations of network-based classrooms." Sibylle Gruber, Computers and Composition

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521457025
• ISBN 13: 9780521457026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Bruce Bertram C., Peyton Joy Kreeft, Batson Trent