Learning in Communities Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Centered Information Technology

Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in le...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carroll, John M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
Series:Human–Computer Interaction Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I
  • Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning Through ICT
  • The Participant-Observer in Community-Based Learning as Community Bard
  • Learning in Communities: A Distributed Intelligence Perspective
  • Spiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-Based Learning
  • Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation
  • Supporting the Appropriation of ICT: End-User Development in Civil Societies
  • Developmental Learning Communities
  • Social Reproduction and Its Applicability for Community Informatics
  • Communities, Learning, and Democracy in the Digital Age
  • Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design
  • II
  • Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation
  • Community-Based Learning: The Core Competency of Residential, Research-Based Universities
  • Sustaining a Community Computing Infrastructure for Online Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of Designing Tapped In
  • Expert Recommender: Designing for a Network Organization
  • Patterns as a Paradigm for Theory in Community-Based Learning
  • Architecture, Infrastructure, and Broadband Civic Network Design: An Institutional View
  • Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning Through a Geocollaboration Software Architecture