Cornerstones for an on-line community of education professionals

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ID20363544
AutoresMark Schlager (SRI International), J Fusco, Juan P Fusco (SRI International), Patricia Schank (SRI International)
Año1998
Volumen17
Número4
Páginas15-21
Fecha de publicación1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIEEE Technology and Society Magazine (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0278-0097 • E-ISSN: 1937-416X
EditorialInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1109/44.735857
OpenAlexW2031870043
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas4

We propose viewing the Internet as a landscape containing many gathering places and addressing both design and social issues from the perspective of each individual place and the community that shapes it. Different kinds of public gathering places, or third places as R. Oldenburg (1997) calls them, attract and serve the needs of different groups of people both by design and adaptation. We have been working in a small corner of the Internet for the past two years (1996-8) to create a third place for practitioners of a particular profession-education. Our goal is to learn how to grow a self sustaining online community of education professionals that supports and enhances the professional growth of its members over the length of their careers. In that respect, our third place is intended to be both workplace and informal gathering place. in the spirit of M.C. McFarland's (1995) search to find an appropriate metaphor, we have found that a coral reef might best describe how we are trying to grow a diverse and thriving community (M. Schlager and P. Schank, 1997). Our environment is built on two core technologies that have been in common use for several years: telnet based multi user virtual environments (MUVEs), and the Web-making the system cross-platform compatible and accessible by any computer that has Internet capabilities

Internet privacy · Knowledge management · Metaphor · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Telnet · The Internet · Thriving · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Education and Technology Integration · Psychology

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