Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace

Building Learning Communities in RENA A. PALLOFF AND KEITH PRATT Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco 1999 Paperback: $33.00 ISBN 0-7879-4460-2 The authors of Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace, Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt, describe the book as Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. For me, it was the end of a three-year quest into research, journals, books, conferences, workshops, and list serves for a body of wisdom on this topic. It clearly and succinctly encapsulates both a solid research-based theoretical foundation and direct application of those theories through a step-by-step guidance process. Palloff is an assistant professor at John F. Kennedy University and has been working…