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Professor of Educational Technology and Design at the University of Saskatchewan. Schwier does a lot of work on virtual learning communities (vlc).

By Richard A. Schwier and published June 2011. This page offers free download of the .epub. Schwier is at the University of Saskatchewan and studies virtual learning communities. For more, see the scheier tag.

By Debbie Garber, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, vol 5 (2), August 2004. This paper goes beyond technology to look at "the social process on which an online learning community if it is to flourish and be useful." Also stresses "importance of nurturing the community's health, and the natural life cycle of a virtual community...."

By Richard Schwier, Proceedings of EMEDIA 2009, Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education, June 2009. Schwier works out of the Virtual Learning Communities Research Laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan, and this paper looks at some of their key findings.