eLearn: Feature Article - Creating Online Professional Learning Communities - 0 views
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In the 21st century, working environments are evolving into collaborative places where knowledge is disseminated by autonomous individuals organized into more lateral and less hierarchical structures
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"These technologies form rich socio-technical networks that have come to constitute life in this digital age, and participation in these networks is becoming commonplace. They exist in various stages, forms, and venues"
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Recent years have yielded research into the importance of community and online teaching in online courses
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This has expanded into the idea of a social presence where one is able to be seen as a real person in a virtual environment
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Study findings have supported the idea that the cause of success in an online environment is the establishment of an effective learning community [9].
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what steps may be taken to create and establish online PLCs to make them work for a virtual environment