Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) - Softcover

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9780521520812: Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
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ISBN 10: 0521520819 ISBN 13: 9780521520812
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume explores the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions relevant to designing for and researching web-based communities to support the learning process. Coming from diverse academic backgrounds, the authors examine what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support educational processes. Taken as a collection, the chapters point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for a web-supported community, especially when the focal practice of the community is learning.

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Book Description

The chapters in this volume explore the theoretical, design, learning, and methodological questions with respect to designing for and researching web-based communities to support learning. The authors, coming from diverse academic backgrounds (computer science, information science, instructional systems technology, educational psychology, sociology, and anthropology), are frank in examining what we do and do not know about the processes and practices of designing communities to support learning. Taken as a collection, these manuscripts point to the challenges and complex tensions that emerge when designing for web-supported community, especially when the focal practice of the community is learning.

About the Author

Sasha Barab is a Professor in the Teachers College at Arizona State University, where he also holds the Pinnacle West Presidential Chair and is a Founding Senior Scientist and Scholar of the Learning Sciences Institute.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521520819
ISBN 13 
9780521520812
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
480
Editor
Barab Sasha, Kling Rob, Gray James H.
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