Synopses & Reviews
Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in learning communities. This volume gathers together all of the scholarly materials directly emanating from a workshop held in August 2005, when a multidisciplinary group of scholars met at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology to discuss 'learning in communities'. Initially, a sectioned report on the workshop was published as a special section in the Journal of Community Informatics in 2006. Subsequently, a special issue of 5 full papers was published in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and a special section of 2 full papers was published in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.
Review
From the reviews: "Learning in communities is for people involved in lifelong learning in all its manifestations: knowledge management, distributed learning, cognitive apprenticeship, communities of practice, or any of the other terms used in this diverse field. It is a book of wide scope, bringing together many viewpoints. ... this book, in series of texts on human-computer interaction, is by academics for academics." (Alexa Campbell, Technical Communication, Vol. 56 (4), November, 2009)
Review
From the reviews:
"Learning in communities is for people involved in lifelong learning in all its manifestations: knowledge management, distributed learning, cognitive apprenticeship, communities of practice, or any of the other terms used in this diverse field. It is a book of wide scope, bringing together many viewpoints. ... this book, in series of texts on human-computer interaction, is by academics for academics." (Alexa Campbell, Technical Communication, Vol. 56 (4), November, 2009)
Synopsis
Because formal education cannot meet all learning needs, community learning is vital. In 2005, a group of multidisciplinary scholars met for a workshop on learning in communities, and this book is a compilation of papers that emanated from that workshop.
Synopsis
Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in learning communities. This collection of papers is not the definitive summary of learning in communities. It is assuredly more prolegomena than coda. Learning is increasingly recognized as a critical facet of lifetime activity, one that must become better integrated with all that people do. At the same time, community structures are increasingly recognized as a critical category of social organization - flexible and adaptable, capable of innovation and development, and yet just as strongly nurturing and supportive. The promise of learning in communities lies ahead of us. This set of essays intends to propel us all along that path.
Synopsis
John M. Carroll is Edward M. Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and design of interactive information systems. Carroll serves on several editorial and advisory boards and is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions. He received the Rigo Award and the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Silver Core Award from International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), and the Goldsmith Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Table of Contents
Introduction
John M Carroll
Section 1
Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning through ICT
Ann Peterson Bishop, Bertrum C Bruce and Cameron Jones
The Participant-Observer in Community-based Learning as Community Bard
John M CarrollLearning in Communities: A Distributed Intelligence Perspective
Gerhard FischerSpiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-based Learning
Gerhard Fischer, Markus Rohde and Volker WulfDesigning Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation
Andrea Kavanaugh and Philip IsenhourSupporting the Appropriation of ICT: End-User Development in Civil Societies
Volmar Pipek, Mary Beth Rosson, Gunnar Stevens and Volker WulfDevelopmental Learning Communities
Mary Beth Rosson and John M CarrollSocial Reproduction and its Applicability for Community Informatics
Lynette KvasnyCommunities, Learning and Democracy in the Digital Age
Lynette Kvasny, Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina SchementRadical Praxis and Civic Network Design
Murali Venkatesh and Jeffrey Owens
Section 2
Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation
Andrea Kavanaugh, Than Than Zin, Mary Beth Rosson, John M Carroll, Joseph Schmitz and B Joon KimCommunity-based Learning: The core cometency of residential, research-based universities
Gerhard Fischer, Markus Rohde and Volker WulfSustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development: A case study of designing Tapped In
Umer Farooq, Patricia Schank, Alexandra Harris, Judith Fusco and Mark SchlagerExpert Recommender: Designing for a Network Organization
Tim Reichling, Michael Veith and Volker WulfPatterns as a Paradigm for theory in community based learning
John MCarroll and Umer FarooqInfrastructures as Institutions
Murali Venkatesh and Mawaki ChangoSupporting Community Emergency Management Planning through a Geo-collaboration Software Architecture
Wendy A Schafer, Craig H Ganoe and John M Carroll