Community-Embedded Learning

Online learners often stay located in, and tied to, their communities, kinship networks, households, and workplaces. Institutions providing online education can thus create ties to communities as students draw their learning into networks in which they are already embedded. Frequent interactions acr...

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Published inThe Library quarterly (Chicago) Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 190 - 212
Main Author Kazmer, Michelle M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, Il University of Chicago Press 01.04.2005
Subjects
Computer assisted instruction
Computer Mediated Communication
Cooperative Learning
Distance Education
Distance learning
Education
Educational Technology
Educational uses
Exact sciences and technology
Information and communication sciences
Information science
Information Science Education
Information science. Documentation
Internet
Interpersonal Relationship
Libraries
Library and information science
Library and information science. General aspects
Library Education
Online communities
Online Courses
Professional aspects
Sciences and techniques of general use
Teacher Student Relationship
Web Based Instruction
Learning
Information science
Information communication technology
Network
Librarianship
Community
Remote teaching
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Summary:Online learners often stay located in, and tied to, their communities, kinship networks, households, and workplaces. Institutions providing online education can thus create ties to communities as students draw their learning into networks in which they are already embedded. Frequent interactions across multiple media that are afforded by information and communication technologies (ICT) allow students to create strong ties with their fellow students and instructors. Those relationships provide a network of weak ties that is indirectly available to friends, coworkers, and community members who live and work near the students. Community-embedded learning that takes advantage of these strong and weak ties and is appropriate to ICT modes of delivery is important for two reasons. The various clienteles served by students while they earn their degrees will affect library and information science (LIS) education and outcomes, and LIS distance education offered via interactive ICT can directly affect the clienteles served.
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ISSN:0024-2519
1549-652X
DOI:10.1086/431333