The virtual classroom: learning without limits via computer networks
The virtual classroom: learning without limits via computer networks
Learning networks: a field guide to teaching and learning online
Learning networks: a field guide to teaching and learning online
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Can NetCourses™ teach collaboration, improve learning, and transform teaching practices on a large scale? This paper describes an experimental model of collaborative Web-teaching using netseminars to train teachers, who in turn, create NetCourses for their virtual students in a Virtual High School (VHS) Consortium. We suggest that netseminars and NetCourses represent a viable and feasible method for scaling up instruction that fosters constructivist teaching practices and capitalizes on collaborative learning communities and cooperative on-line resources. We articulate this novel model and discuss issues in fostering collaboration, highlighting the challenges faced by teachers and netfaculty in the transformation of their practices toward collaborative approaches based on results from the first netseminar. We raise questions about the cultural shifts needed to transform computer-supported collaborative teaching and reflect on redefinition of teacher/student roles in the scaling of electronic communities.