Computer-mediated communication” refers to
communication between people that occurs through the medium of the computer, and
includes email, instant messages, chat rooms, newsgroups, and blogs. Learning sciences
researchers have made great progress in understanding how CMC can be used to
connect learners together, and to allow learners to connect with society at large.
Students can learn while engaged in authentic activities with real
consequences. The Internet connects groups of people, information, and
institutions in new ways, creating new opportunities to realize this vision.
Future research should explore how to make
learning communities more effective, and that research will always be guided by
one or more prototypes of learning communities. The specific prototypes that
the researcher chooses guide which characteristics of the learning environment
are emphasized. Research will be more valuable if the researchers are explicit
about which prototypes of learning community are guiding their research.
Eventually, we will move learning in online
communities beyond those prototypes that are based on existing learning
communities, and new genres of online learning community will emerge that have
no direct analog in anything that has come before. Understanding and
learning from existing learning communities is essential to realizing this vision.
How
can we check the students with this method?
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