Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities

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Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities
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title	Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities
description	Educational on-line resources are expanding in their application beyond delivering courses to providing venues in which members of professional communities of practice meet to exchange problems, ideas and questions. This paper will discuss two such communities, their similarities and their differences. Design decisions will be suggested to encourage designers and facilitators of such venues to be aware of the community for whom they are designing.
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keywords	Distance learning, Evaluation, Communities of practice, Language learning, Distance education, Educational technology, Learning technology, E-learning, On-line learning community, Human-computer interaction, User-centred design, Triangulation in evaluation, Evaluation framework, Learning processes, Further and higher education, Multi-institutional evaluation, Quantitative evaluation, Evaluation of learning technology, Web learning environment,
priceCode	Free
onlineprovider	The International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
recordCreated	2001-05-10T19:32:37-5:00
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