ERIC Number: ED432989
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1999-Jun
Pages: 12
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Difficulties Bring Wisdom: Online Learners Learn How Online Communities Learn.
Herman, Lisa; Ige, Gabriel; Duryea, Licia; McCarver, Patricia; Good, Kyle
This collaborative paper, created online by Ph.D students in a three-year cohort learning program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, explores the development and felt experience of distance learning. The purpose is to give a sense of how it feels to learn online and to describe the essence of learning. Results of this collaborative inquiry are discussed in terms of the development of non-traditional online learning, notable learning differences between non-traditional schools and online non-traditional schools, the influence of support on how online communities learn, the medium of electronic learning, and the medium as a theme within the authors' inquiry group. Poems and reflections are included as part of the discussion on the qualitative aspects of online learning. (Contains 20 references.) (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Education, Distance Education, Educational Development, Educational Environment, Graduate Study, Group Discussion, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Inquiry, Internet, Learning Experience, Nontraditional Education, Online Systems, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Student Reaction
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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