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On this webpage,
you can read about researchers who study learning, collaboration,
communication and community development in online environments.
Amy Bruckman
Bruckman is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing at
Georgia Tech. She is doing research on online communities and education,
and is also the founder of the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC)
research group. You can read her dissertation
on Internet. The work is about MOOSE Crossing, a text-based virtual
world (or MUD) designed to be a constructionist learning environment
for children ages 8 to 13.
Sasha
Barab
Barab will publish a book called "Designing for Virtual Communities
in the Service of Learning" early 2004 together with Rob Kling
and James H. Gray. He is working as an Associate Professor in Instructional
Systems Technology and Cognitive Science at Indiana University.
Curt
Bonk
Curt Bonk is interested in collaboration through the use of ICT
and the internet. He is one of the editors of 'Electronic Collaborators'.
Betty
Collis
Collis is the Shell Professor of Networked Learning and are doing
research on flexible learning.Together with Jef Moonen, she is the
author of the book: "Flexible Learning in a Digital World:
Experiences and Expectations".
Pierre
Dillenbourg
Dillenbourg is writing about collaborative learning and distributed
cognition in environments based on ICT. His work is associated with
the research on CSCL.
Caroline
Haythornthwaite
Haythornthwaite is an Associate Professor, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in the way social networks
are formed online, how virtual connections maintain online communities,
and what makes it possible for people to work, and learn at a distance
via CMC.
Starr Roxanne
Hiltz
Roxanne write about building Learning Communities in Online Courses.
her research is in the area of educational OLC:
Elsebeth
Korsgaard Sorensen
Korsgaard Sorensen is an Associate professor at Aalborg University,
Denmark. Her work examines learning in virtual contexts, navigation,
Interaction and collaboration. Her work is connected to the area
of CSCL.
Sten
Ludvigsen
Ludvigsen is working at InterMedia, University in Oslo and participates
in several research projects about learning (sociocultural studies),
ICT and mutimedia. Ludvigsens research is within the field of CSCL.
Roy
D. Pea
Pea is a Professor of Education and Learning Sciences at Stanford
university.
Dr. Pea's research for the past 20 years has centered on how innovations
in computing and communications technologies and affiliated socio-cultural
practices can influence learning, thinking, and educational systems.
K.
Ann Renninger
The author of "Building Virtual Communities - Learning
and Change in Cyberspace, Ann Renninger is a Professor at the Swarthmore
College.Her research program focuses specifically on the role of
individual interest in students' cognition. She is also involved
in the Mathform which is a well-known online learning community.
Bronwyn Stuckey
Bronwyn Stuckey is writing about design and development of Internet-mediated
communities of practice.
Barry
Wellman
Barry Wellman studies networks: community, communication, computer,
and social. His research examines virtual community, the virtual
workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social
network theory and methods.
Etienne Wenger
Wenger is trying to understand the connection between knowledge,
community, learning, and identity through the ideas about Communities
of Practice. He's the author of the book, Communities of practice
- Learning, meaning, and identity.
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