JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
V. 4 #3, 9/2008
"From a community-of-practice perspective, all three are facets of learning and, where it is supported, learning occurs in all three facets at once: meeting new people, acquiring new conversational and technical skills, and learning about a subject." 09/22/2006 John D. Smith & Beverly Trayner
D. R. Garrison
LPP is the central principle in Lave & Wenger's situated learning theory. Coined the term "community of practice."
IRRODL. Zawacki-Ricther, Backer, Vogt
John B. Smith, 1994
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"Data from 1,145 teacher evaluation forms, representing student responses in fifty-seven undergraduate courses are used to examine the role of instructor likeability on student perceptions of learning and ratings of overall teaching ability. The results suggest that students who rate their instructor high in likeability reward that instructor with high ratings in overall teaching ability. However, high likeability ratings are not associated with an increase in student perceptions of learning. The failure of likeability to effect perceived learning, juxtaposed with its positive impact on global teacher ratings, gives some credence to recent critiques of student consumerism in higher education. Namely, when students approach college as customers, they expect to be entertained and served only in ways they find pleasing. Suggestions for the more appropriate use of student evaluations of teaching (SETS) and their impact on how faculty define teaching effectiveness are discussed. "
Carol Hostetter & Monique Busch
Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 2006, pp. 1 – 12.
Barbara Niedzwiedzka. Information Research 9(1): Paper 164
"Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses."
An introduction to distance education: Understanding teaching and learning in a new era