These are online journals, articles, and sites that I recommend for further exploration of online learning communities.

 

Online Journals

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT)

http://jolt.merlot.org/index.html

 

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/ 

 

SLOAN-C Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN)

http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/jaln/

 

The Knowledge Tree: An e-Journal of Learning Innovation

http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/

 

Specific Articles

How Some Folks Have Tried to Describe Community

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/definingcommunity.htm

 

What Does an Elearning Community look like?

http://selearninggames.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/what-does-an-elearning-community-look-like/

 

Let Your Online Learning Community Grow

http://www.mainetoday.com/communities/build/tipspop.shtml

 

What is a Virtual Community and Why Would You Ever Need One??

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitywhatwhy.htm

 

Building Online Communities

http://webdesign.about.com/cs/communityonline/a/aa112398.htm 

 

Experience Beats Literature for Grokking Online Community

http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/03january/inside-out-4.htm

 

Benchmarks for Building Extranets and Online Communities

http://www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/extranet_benchmarks.pdf

 

Online Communities: Design, Theory, and Practice (Preece & Krichmar)

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue4/preece.html

 

Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System (Wenger)

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

 

Understanding Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities of Practice

http://www.ejkm.com/volume-1/volume1-issue-2/issue2-art18-sharratt.pdf

 

Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue1/ridings_gefen.html

 

A Strategy for Building Community and Knowledge Management

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/search_results_id.php?id=391

 

Collegiality and Community - Building as a Means for Sustaining Student Persistence in the Computer - Mediated Asynchronous Learning Environment

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/search_results_id.php?id=321

 

Affordances of a VR World as a Place for Learning: Discourse Patterns and Contextualization Cues Framing Learning Experiences for Adults in a Real-time, Text-based, Virtual Reality Setting

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/aera00/47.47/polin/

 

Learning Communities: Common Ground and Critical Differences in Designing Technical Environments

http://inkido.indiana.edu/dvc/riel.doc 

 

Community Technology and Community Building (Pinkett)

http://web.media.mit.edu/~rpinkett/papers/diac2002.pdf

 

Web Resources

Community Building on the Web (Kim), Ch. 1-9

http://www.naima.com/community/

 

Online Communities (Pew)

http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=47

 

Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCN)

http://ctcnet.org/

 

Benton Foundation: Community Building Resources

http://www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/community.html

 

Center for Children & Technology

http://cct.edc.org/

• Approaches to Community Computing (Beamish)

• Effective Technology Use in Low Income Communities (CCT)

• Getting Communities Involved in Addressing Technology Access(CCT)

 

Help protect your privacy in online communities

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/online/community_safety.mspx

 

EduTech Wiki: Community of Learning (a wiki)

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Community_of_learning

 

Communities of Practice Online (a blog)

http://coponline.blogspot.com/

 

Building Online Communities (Part I)

http://www.wholebraintech.com/Articles/a24.shtml

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