Alan Levine, MCLI As colleges are developing new courses and programs for delivery via world wide networks, such connections appear to offer the potential for building electronic learning communities. Shared spaces, such as the MariMuse and Pueblo created by Phoenix College's Jim Walters and Billie Hughes, have set the stage for intricate, learner-defined environments. Those with the resources to be electronically linked may not always be a community of learners or truly connected to each other.
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Yesterday, Stacy Horn said that online conversations change you and make you think. Today, Ana Marie Cox says the discussions are like existentialist plays because they don't develop. In this issue of the Labyrinth we explore some of the issues related to building learning communities that take advantage of technology. MCLI Director Naomi Story highlights the issue of human connectedness. Dean Stover describes the use of both Internet and groupware for an integrated block at GateWay Community College.