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http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/MAY02_Issue/studex01.html

CREATING AN ONLINE COMMUNITY
Louise Bailey, Earl W. Boatwright, Francisco Coronel, Patrick Dingle, Mahla Strohmaier

Online communities in an educational setting exist, evolve, and are enhanced with communication protocols. Katherine Mieszkowski (2000) defines community as a "market space" that allows people with shared needs to swap ideas, trade experiences, and learn from one another. In the development of such online communities, communication between prospective members of the community is essential – creating avenues of communicating and defining topics that meet the interest and shared needs of an online community’s “residents.” One purpose of this essay is to highlight the positive role of communication protocols in an online educational setting, which include establishment of synchronous and asynchronous communication exchanges on technological, pedagogical, field specific and personal levels....

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