Learning networks : a field guide to teaching and learning online

Linda Harasim (1) , Starr Roxanne Hiltz (2) , Lucio Teles (3) , Murray Turoff (2)

1 Department of Communications
2 Graduate School of Business
3 SFU.ca - Simon Fraser University = Université Simon Fraser

Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) technologies such as electronic mail, bulletin board services, computer conferencing systems, and the World Wide Web are having a profound effect on education. Learning Networks is a complete guide to the use of these new technologies at the primary, secondary, university, and adult education levels. Drawing on the authors' own considerable experience of teaching and learning online, it describes the learning networks that are available as well as new examples of learning networks that can be created. Part I provides a selective survey of the field: what are learning networks and who is using them, what kind of courses can be taught online, what approaches to teaching and learning are most successful online, what curriculum can best be supported by networking, and what kinds of teachers and learners benefit from this medium. Part II deals exhaustively with the design and implementation of learning networks as well as the roles of teachers and learners and gives a realistic assessment of potential pitfalls. In Part III the authors discuss CMC technologies as a paradigm for education in the next century. (http://books.google.fr/books?id=NFkaDHideBcC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false)

Mots clés: online learning; computer mediated communication (CMC); learning networks

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education

Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, Murray Turoff. Learning networks : a field guide to teaching and learning online. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 341 p., 1995. ⟨hal-00702947⟩