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Guidelines for facilitating the development of learning communities in online courses.

Online learning has grown exponentially in recent years; however, dropout problem remains challenging for some online programmes. The dropout problem can be attributed to a number of reasons, with a lack of interaction between learners and the instructor constituting one of the main reasons. The lac...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 220 - 233
Main Authors: Yuan, J., Kim, C.
Format: tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2014
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          Yuan, J.
          Kim, C.
        affil: Learning, Design, and Technology, The University of Georgia
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          Education, Non-Traditional Standards
          Social Isolation Psychosocial Factors
          Online Services
          Computer-Assisted Instruction Psychosocial Factors
          Education, Non-Traditional Psychosocial Factors
          Learning Environment
          Communities
          Virtual Reality
          Social Participation Psychosocial Factors
          Teaching
          Faculty-Student Relations
      ab: Online learning has grown exponentially in recent years; however, dropout problem remains challenging for some online programmes. The dropout problem can be attributed to a number of reasons, with a lack of interaction between learners and the instructor constituting one of the main reasons. The lack of interaction also leads to learners' feeling of isolation. Learning communities can provide learners with an environment conducive to increased interactions and alleviate their feeling of isolation. Unfortunately, there are no clear rules that instructors can follow to help learners create learning communities. In this paper, we propose guidelines for online instructors to facilitate the development of learning communities in online courses. We first review the definition of a learning community, importance of a learning community and factors affecting the development of a learning community. Afterwards, based on a review of the existing guidelines and other relevant literature, we propose guidelines for facilitating the development of learning communities in online courses.
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