Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Identifying the value types of virtual communities based on the Q method
International Journal of Web Based Communities
A Knowledge Management Tool for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice
International Journal of Knowledge Management
Supporting the Interconnection of Communities of Practice: The Example of TE-Cap 2
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies
A hierarchical framework for open access to education and learning
International Journal of Web Based Communities
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This paper explores the development of MirandaNet, an online Community of Practice (CoP) established in 1992, and its contribution to teacher Continuous Professional Development (CPD). It identifies four stages in its development. Its initial stage was as a conventional website supported by an e-mail-based listserv that built distributed cognition accessed by its members. During its second stage it analysed those factors that support (or hinder) the participation of teachers in online communities, and ensured that appropriate affordances were built into the MirandaNet model. The third stage built on Salmon's 5-Step Theory (2002) and developed the use of discussion forums for the communal construction of knowledge. The final stage described in this paper is the use of MirandaNet as an interactive resource in which members may share, exchange and publish a range of documents and artefacts, similar to Web 2.0 affordances.