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Creating an Online Learning Community: Tips and Strategies
A starter guide to building an online learning community: set a clear purpose, welcome members, moderate fairly and keep the group going over the long term.
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Online Learning Communities
Creating and sustaining groups where learners work together.
Creating an Online Learning Community that Supports Student Success
How peer groups, mentors and study circles may help online learners stay on track, and how to judge whether a community is actually supporting completion.
Creating an Online Learning Community that Supports Student Support Services
How advising, tutoring, technical help and wellness services can be woven into an online learning community, with notes on privacy, referral and realistic limits.
Online Learning Communities: Fostering Collaboration and Engagement
Practical ways to run group work online: choosing forums and shared documents, setting team roles, structuring peer review and keeping every member involved.
Open Education and Collaboration: Building a Learning Community
How open licensing lets learners and teachers build shared course materials together, and what groups need to agree on about credit, licenses and quality.
Open Education and Community Engagement: Building a Learning Community
How libraries, local organizations and residents who are not enrolled students can join a shared learning effort, and how to keep such a partnership welcoming.
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