Learning in Communities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Centered Information Technology

✍ Scribed by Ann Peterson Bishop, Bertram C. Bruce, M. Cameron Jones (auth.), John M. Carroll (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in learning communities.

This collection of papers is not the definitive summary of learning in communities. It is assuredly more prolegomena than coda. Learning is increasingly recognized as a critical facet of lifetime activity, one that must become better integrated with all that people do. At the same time, community structures are increasingly recognized as a critical category of social organization – flexible and adaptable, capable of innovation and development, and yet just as strongly nurturing and supportive. The promise of learning in communities lies ahead of us. This set of essays intends to propel us all along that path.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning Through ICT....Pages 3-5
The Participant-Observer in Community-Based Learning as Community Bard....Pages 7-10
Learning in Communities: A Distributed Intelligence Perspective....Pages 11-16
Spiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-Based Learning....Pages 17-20
Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation....Pages 21-23
Supporting the Appropriation of ICT: End-User Development in Civil Societies....Pages 25-27
Developmental Learning Communities....Pages 29-33
Social Reproduction and Its Applicability for Community Informatics....Pages 35-39
Communities, Learning, and Democracy in the Digital Age....Pages 41-44
Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design....Pages 45-52
Front Matter....Pages 54-54
Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation....Pages 55-73
Community-Based Learning: The Core Competency of Residential, Research-Based Universities....Pages 75-110
Sustaining a Community Computing Infrastructure for Online Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of Designing Tapped In....Pages 111-138
Expert Recommender: Designing for a Network Organization....Pages 139-171
Patterns as a Paradigm for Theory in Community-Based Learning....Pages 173-194
Architecture, Infrastructure, and Broadband Civic Network Design: An Institutional View....Pages 195-224
Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning Through a Geocollaboration Software Architecture....Pages 225-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-266

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction