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Online Classrooms and Distance Learning


Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace:
Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom

by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, Apr 1999

This book focuses on the task of creating a sense of community among learners. The authors share their insight into what it takes to foster feelings of safety and a sense of shared learning among students and faculty involved in computer-mediated distance education.

Winner of the University Continuing Education Association's Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in Continuing Higher Education.

Educator's Guide to Electronic Networking:
Creating Virtual Communities

by Barbara Kurshan, June 1994
E-moderating:
The Key to Teaching and Learning Online

by Gilly Salmon, Apr 2000
Lessons from the Cyberspace Classroom:
The Realities of Online Teaching

by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, Mar 2001

Omar R. Hadjar 2002-01-20