Network-Based Classrooms

Bruce, Bertram C.

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Title

Network-Based Classrooms

Author(s)

Bruce, Bertram C.

Issue Date

1994

Keyword(s)

• Network-based classroom
• Writing (composition)
• Higher education

Date of Ingest

2010-12-22T22:45:33Z

Abstract

Computer-mediated communication is an increasingly familiar part of the educational experiences of students from elementary school through graduate school. This is not surprising, because electronic mail, bulletin boards, gopher servers, and other forms of telecommunication offer conveniences and exciting new possibilities for learning. The rapid expansion of the Internet, the availability of low-cost modems and high-speed data lines, and a growing awareness of the educational possibilities are leading to major changes in classrooms. The many ways in which network-based classrooms are used highlights questions about the goals and means of education that are too often pushed aside. By affording new ways of communicating, these classrooms ask us to rethink questions such as: What role should the teacher have in the classroom? How can students support each other’s learning? What kinds of writing should students learn to do? How should we accommodate, or balance, student interests with other curricular concerns? What is needed to make a classroom become a true learning community? In addition to raising these questions, they provide us with new possibilities for answering them.

Publisher

Indiana State University, School of Education

ISSN

0010-7476

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Article

Language

en

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