1. ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES

2. WELCOME o Facilitator name Position at university Contact info

3. LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this module, you should be able to: o Develop strategies for building social presence in online courses o Compare different methods of creating community online o Identify how to use educational technology and design learning activities that help to develop online learning communities

4. AGENDA o Defining online learning communities o Social learning theory and online classes/collaboration o Strategies to develop successful online learning communities o Evaluating participation in an online learning community

5. DEFINING ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES

6. GROUP DISCUSSION o What is a learning community? o Share your ideas and respond to the thoughts of your peers.

7. GROUP ACTIVITY o In groups of four, reflect on the opening discussion: Try to find three key characteristics that define a learning community. What is the role of an instructor in creating such communities face-to-face?

8. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY AND ONLINE COLLABORATION

9. SOCIAL PRESENCE Paloff, R., Pratt, K. (2005). Online Learning Communities Revisited. Paper presented at 21st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Wisconsin, United States. Retrieved from http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/resource_library/proceedings/05_1801.pdf

10. SOCIAL LEARNING IN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES o Modelling o Coaching o Scaffolding o Articulation o Reflection o Exploration Framework of six instructional methods for social learning (Collins et al, 1989) Lewis, D., Allan, B., & Society for Research into Higher Education. (2005). Virtual learning communities: A guide for practitioners. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

11. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY o Think about the following question on your own: In what ways, if any, do I currently encourage students to participate in class?

12. SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY o Based on the responses from the different groups, how could current practices be adjusted to reflect social learning theory and improve the development of learning communities?

13. DEVELOPING AN ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITY

14. BUILDING A LEARNING COMMUNITY Video o Cultivating online learning communities

15. GROUP ACTIVITY o With your group, brainstorm an online activity that could help develop a learning community for each of the following categories: Ice-breaker/IntroLearner/peer feedback Group/collaborative project

16. EVALUATING PARTICIPATION Video o Evaluating participation in an online learning community

17. SUMMARY o An online learning community is an online group with active interaction which provides socially constructed learning o Social learning theory allows learners to develop their own meaning o Social learning can be used to encourage the growth of an online learning community o There are various methods you can use to evaluate student participation in an online community

18. THANK YOU o Questions? o Comments? o Help? Contact information – facilitator’s and departmental

19. REFERENCES 1. Ball, T.C., Leppington, R. (2013). Community-Building Learning Groups in an Online Course: A Study of Functional Moves. The Northwest Journal of Communication, 41 (1): 109. 2. EdenTreeTV. (2011, April 20). Essentials of Supporting Online Learning Communities. Retrieved April 10, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-X06q-Z7RQ. 3. Hessler, H.B., Taggart, A.R. (n.d.) A Review of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. Retrieved from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/7.1/binder.html?reviews/he sslertaggart/index.html.

20. REFERENCES 4. Lewis, D., Allan, B., & Society for Research into Higher Education. (2005). Virtual learning communities: A guide for practitioners. Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press. 5. Paloff, R., Pratt, K. (1999). Building learning communities in cyberspace: effective strategies for the online classroom. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 6. Paloff, R., Pratt, K. (2005). Online Learning Communities Revisited. Paper presented at 21 st Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Wisconsin, United States. Retrieved from http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/resource_library/p roceedings/05_1801.pdf.

21. REFERENCES 7. PSU World Campus Faculty Development. (2011, January 25). Building the Online Learning Community. Retrieved April 10, 2014, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VykafuRwKKA&list=PL00 5C6939893E0FEA. 8. Schwier, R. (2006). Shaping the Metaphor of Community in Online Learning Environments. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/3882087/Shaping-the- metaphor-of-community-in-online-learning-environments-.