The document discusses online communities in learning and social networking. It defines an online community as a group of people coming together online for a common purpose or interest, typically using chat rooms, mailing lists, and forums. It notes that online learning communities can be educationally and personally fulfilling when students fully engage with the material and each other. Examples of online communities for learning include Canvas, Google Classroom, Edmodo, and Schoology. The document distinguishes social networks from online communities, noting that social networks focus more on personal connections to local friends and family, while online communities connect strangers with shared interests.

1. “Online Communities in
Learning and Social
Networking”

2. What is Online
Community?
An online community is simply a
group of people coming together
for a common purpose, interest, or
vision, and doing so via the internet.
Online communities typically use
chat rooms, mailing lists, and
forums as their primary mode of
interaction.

3. Online Communities in
Learning
o Online learning communities can be educationally
and personally fulfilling when students approach
their courses with a commitment to initiate, respect,
value, and fully engage in the material, dialogues,
and group work. Much has been written about the
importance of the relationship between students and
faculty in online courses. More and more attention is
being given to the tremendous influence of the online
peer community.

4. Examples of online communities in learning
o Canvas
o Google classroom
o Edmodo
o Schoology

5. Online communities in
social networks
Social networks have dominated the space
around connecting online, but they differ from
what we’d consider an online community. To
start, social networks have some sense of
personal gravity about them. The people you’re
connected with on social networks are often local
friends, classmates, or family members, where
online communities are usually made up of
people who don’t know one another, at least
initially.

6. Thank you…
JOYCELEN MAE T. SANTA
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