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This web article shares the results of a study exploring which types of interaction are most predictive of students' sense of community in online graduate courses at a US university. Interactions between learners which emerged as contributing the most to sense of community, in decreasing order of contribution, were (a) introductions, (b) collaborative group projects, (c) contributing personal experiences, (d) entire class online discussions, and (e) exchanging resources.

The Effective Practice Resource Exchange supports users of the Effective Practice in a Digital Age publication by providing a supplementary suite of online recourses that can be updated and added to over time. These resources explore through different themes and viewpoints the elements that underpin effective designing for learning.