Online Collaborative Learning Communities: twenty-one designs to building an online collaborative learning community is a little book chock full of practical advice for teaching with online learning communities, discussion and group projects. The author is an instructor in educational technology who has used online teaching techniques extensively. There is theory here, but nuts and bolts practical advice dominates. There are checklists for online tieams, guidelines on how to review teamwork and provide feeback, guidelines for team governance, and forms for peers to evaluate team members' performance. Those of you working with online discussions and team projects will want to compare these suggestions the practices you have developed from your own experiences.
Vairo Library LB1028.5.T755 2004