Building online communities in higher education institutions
Subtitle: creating collaborative experience
By: Carolyn N. Stevenson, Joanna C. Bauer, editors
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hershey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9781466651784; 9781466651791; 9781466651814
Subjects: Distance education; Computer-assisted instruction; Internet in education; Online social networks; Professional learning communities
Description: "This book cultivates knowledge on topics pertaining to the improvement of communication and collaboration in online learning communities, advancing the current scope of research in this field"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social media, social networks and online learning communities; title: Communication between higher education and social networking sites / Jodi Whitehurst, Jim Vander Putten; title: Building collaborative virtual communities in a university department of early childhood education for wikipedia article authoring / Jim Prentzas, Galini Rekalidou; title: Building collaborations between university pre-service student-teachers and english language students through a socially mediated network / Dustin De Felice, Luz María Ortiz Alcocer; title: Building and maintaining relationships through social media / Alisa Agozzino; title: Making sense of building online learning communities / Justina Kwapy; title: Using the international negotiation modules project (inmp) to build a learning community / Rosalind Latiner Raby; title: Connecting communication to curriculum and pedagogy in online environments / Marius Boboc; title: Working collaboratively in virtual groups / Shelley Stewart, Valerie J. Janesick; title: If you build it, they will come: create virtual student organizations / Elizabeth G. Donnellan; title: Training, faculty development, and promoting student success with practical solutions; title: The concept of ethos as a tool for assessing civility / Benjamin J. Cline; title: Tone and attitude in e-mail communications and the online classroom / Melissa A. Miller; title: No adult left behind: older adults in virtual environments / Linda Salter; title: From "sage on the stage" to facilitator of learning : a transformative learning experience for new online nursing faculty / Denise Passmore; title: Moderating the effective co-creation of knowledge in asynchronous online conferences / David Starr-Glass; title: Online learning guidelines for team effectiveness / Mette L. Baran, Janice E. Jones; title: Killing the "quit point" : constructivist instructor collaboration to increase student retention / David Becker, Jr; title: Collaborative teaching experience at the university of deusto / Alex Rayon, Mariluz Guenaga, Iratxe Menchaca; title: A distributed community of practice to facilitate communication, collaboration, and learning among faculty / Mayela Coto; title: Creating a collaborative community in online environments / Jessica Decker, Valerie Beltran, Mark Matzaganian, Nancy T. Walker, Sammy Elzarka, University of La Verne, USA; title: Communication and collaboration strategies for an effective online professor / Heather Miller; title: Tom cavanagh, annissa furr.