Documentation:CTLT Resources/Webliography Learning Communities

Learning Communities

• Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System - Etienne Wenger

  Paper by Etienne Wenger – one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities.”

  http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lss.shtml

• Online Learning Communities: If You Build Them, Will They Stay? - Janette R. Hill, University of Georgia and Arjan Raven, Georgia State University

  Report on a study that explored best practices for community building in Web-based instruction.

  http://itforum.coe.uga.edu/paper46/paper46.htm

• Professional Learning Communities: What are They and Why are They Important? - Issues... about Change, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1997)

  “This paper focuses on what Astuto and colleagues (1993) label the professional community of learners, in which the teachers in a school and its administrators continuously seek and share learning and then act on what they learn. The goal of their actions is to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit.”

  http://www.sedl.org/change/issues/issues61.html