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Shaping the metaphor of community in online learning environments

 
 
 
 
 
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The metaphor of community, once unpacked, sheds some light on the shape of online learning communities. Communities have features that suggest strategies we can use to nurture student collaboration and learning. Furthermore, the metaphor links naturally with a social constructivist epistemology, and it invites us to consider interesting constructs such as social capital as we attempt to understand how people operate in virtual learning environments.

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