Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom

List of Exhibits. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgments. The Authors. PART ONE: The Learning Community in Online Learning. One: When Teaching and Learning Leave the Classroom. Online Issues and Concerns. Students Online. Making the Transition and Establishing Presence. The Search for Knowledge and Meaning in the Online Classroom. Putting the Pieces Together. New Approaches, New Skills. Implications. Two: Recontextualizing Community. The Importance of Community. Community Online. The Element of Social Presence. Coalescence and Belonging Online. Recontextualizing Community. Community in the Virtual Classroom. Participation and Desired Outcomes in the Online Classroom. Three: The Human Side of Online…