The Offline Nature of Online Community

Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community outs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharla Berry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2019-04-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning
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Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3896