The Online Learning Community: Friend or Faux?

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Creator	Nolan, Mary Kellar, Brenda
Abstract	Everyone involved in online education talks about community – what is it, how is it created, do students really want it? Most researchers now agree that online education is enhanced through a greater sense of community within the online classroom; however, the factors that make for a substantive and quality online “community of inquiry” (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000) remain somewhat elusive. It continues to be a challenging task to embrace the concept of community in a way that is holistic enough to resonate with all students, and it is equally challenging to definitively grasp the factors that allow for its creation within every online classroom. This paper examines the discourse on community within several social science disciplines while also exploring community in online education more broadly.
License	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Resource Type	Research Paper
Date Issued	2018-01
Citation	Nolan, M., & Kellar, B. (2018). Online learning community: Friend or faux? White Paper. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Ecampus Research Unit.
Academic Affiliation	Language, Culture, and Society
Non-Academic Affiliation	Oregon State University. Extended Campus.
Subject	Web-based instruction -- Research
Rights Statement	In Copyright
Related Items	Ecampus Research Fellows Program
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]
File Format	pdf

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