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With reasonable assurance we can now identify and nurture those factors that dramatically increase the likelihood of building sustainable online learning communities. Demands to learn online continue to be exerted on us through our work places and learning institutions. These pressures and opportunities are likely to continue or intensify. This project provides a variety of data from pre-service teachers, practicing educators, and college professors who all received educational online learning experiences. The findings indicate that for online educational learning communities to succeed and flourish they must incorporate appropriate content with both e-moderating and technical support. Recognition of the traps contributing to failure and the preconditions for success is imperative. An electronic online learning community is not business as usual.
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Carlsen, R. (2003). Building productive online learning communities. In: Davies, G., Stacey, E. (eds) Quality Education @ a Distance. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35700-3_15
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