Learning, Culture, and Community in Online

Caroline Haythornthwaite is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published widely on online work, learning and social interaction, and is co-editor of The Internet in Everyday Life. Michelle M. Kazmer is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies at Florida State University. Her work on online learners and disengagement from online social worlds has appeared in American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, First Monday, and The Electronic Library.

Foreword: Reflecting on Best Practices

ix

Amy Bruckman

Introduction: Multiple Perspectives and Practices in Online Education

xiii

Caroline Haythornthwaite & Michelle M. Kazmer

EDUCATION ONLINE

1 Navigating the Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Pedagogy

3

(16)

Nicholas C. Burbules

2 Maintaining the Affordances of Traditional Education Long Distance

19

(16)

Bertram C. Bruce

EXPLORING COMMUNITY

3 Community Development among Distance Learners: Temporal and Technological Dimensions

35

(24)

Caroline Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Jennifer Robins, & Susan Shoemaker

4 Catch a Cyber by the Tale: Online Orality and the Lore of a Distributed Learning Community

59

(30)

Betsy Hearne & Anna L. Nielsen

5 Juggling Multiple Social Worlds: Distance Students Online and Offline

89

(22)

Michelle M. Kazmer & Caroline Haythornthwaite

6 Disengaging from Online Community

111

(18)

Michelle M. Kazmer

NEW CHALLENGES AND NEW FEATURES IN ONLINE SETTINGS

7 Affordances of Persistent Conversation: Promoting Communities That Work

129

(16)

Caroline Haythornthwaite & Alvan Bregman

8 Affording a Place: The Persistent Structures of LEEP

145

(18)

Jennifer Robins

9 Changing Patterns of Participation: Interactions in a Synchronous Audio+Chat Classroom

163

(14)

Karen Ruhleder

10 Over-the-Shoulder Learning in a Distance Education Environment

177

(20)

Michael B. Twidale & Karen Ruhleder

TEACHING AND LEARNING ONLINE

11 Teaching and Learning Online: LEEP's Tribal Gleanings

197

(18)

Pat Lawton & Rae-Anne Montague

12 Faculty Perspectives

215

(14)

Rae-Anne Montague & Linda C. Smith

13 The Virtual Classroom as Ludic Space

229

(16)

Christine A. Jenkins

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

14 The Distance Education Program from the Management Perspective

245

(10)

Leigh S. Estabrook

15 User-Centered Support and Technology in LEEP

255

(12)

Jill Gengler

16 Reshaping Traditional Services for Nontraditional Learning: The LEEP Student in the Library

267

(16)

Susan E. Searing

17 The View from Campus Administration

283

(8)

Lanny Arvan

LEEP Bibliography

compiled by Rae Anne Montague

291

(6)

Contributors

297

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