Technical and professional communication e-learning environments: Establishing community and "sense of community"

IEEE International Professional Communication Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 471-476

  Southard, Sherry ^a,c   Cranford, Christine ^a   Woods, Josh ^b,d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Freed IIardeman University

^c ECU Technical and Professional Communication Graduate Programs   (United States)

^d Freed Hardeman University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance education; E learning; Online communities; Sense of community

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SENSE OF COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES;

DISTANCE EDUCATION; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 33745270561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPCC.2005.1494213     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. P. Brizzell, "Cognition, Convention, and Certainty: What We Need to Know about Writing," PRE/TEXT, vol. 3, pp. 213-243, 1982.
2. C. Shaffer and K. Anundsen, Creating Community Anywhere, New York: Perigee Books, 1993.
3. R. Palloff and K. Pratt, Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace: Effective Strategies for the Online Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.
4. C. P. Ruppel and S. J. Harrrington, "Sharing Knowledge through Intranets: A Student of Organizational Culture and Intranet Implementation, " IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 37-52, 2001.
5. M. G. Moore, "Theory of Transactional Distance," in Theoretical Principles of Distance Education, D. Keegan, Ed. London: Routledge, pp. 22-38, 1993.
6. M. G. Moore and G. Kearsley, Distance Education: A Systems View, New York: Wadsworth, 1996.
7. K. Murphy and M. Collins. (1997). Community Conventions in Instructional Electronic Chats, First Monday [Online]. 2(11), n. pag. Accessed 10 March 2005 at http://www.firstmonday.dk/issucs/issuc2_11/murphy/index.html
8. S. Doheny-Farina, The Wired Neighborhood. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.
9. S. Doheny-Farina, Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
10. J. Bowman and I. Klopping, "Bandstands, Bandwidth, and Business Communication: Technology and the Sanctity of Writing," Business Communication Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 82-90, 1999.
11. P. Kostur and J. Aronovitch, "From Information to Instruction: Transforming Text Books into Online Learning Materials," in IEEE Proc.: Int. Professional Communication Conf. Santa Fe, CA: IEEE, 2001, pp. 33-52.
12. R. H. Woods, "How Much communication Is Enough in Online Courses? - Exploring the Relationship between Frequency of Instructorinitiated Personal Email and Learners' Perceptions of and Participation in Online Eearning," International Journal of Instructional Media, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 377-391, 2002.