Reading on Creating Online Learning Communities

       This week I have been thinking about issues of online learning community. Because I have never thought about it, nor participated one that is outside the university range, plus the fact that I am still technologically new to online community, my thoughts were random and rudimentary. Therefore, I selected some articles to read, and got some ideas interesting to me (hopefully interesting to you, too). 
      One of the articles is Creating and Sustaining Online Learning Communities:
Designing for Transformative Learning. This article addresses the environmental factors for designing an online learning community: social presence, authentic learning and interdependancy. The three factors are intricately linked and take on different levels of importance in different phases of learning and community development. 
    The following is a link to the article. If you are interested, you can either downloaded at the university library or get access to it in a way you prefer. 
     Creating and Sustaining Online Learning Communities: Designing for Transformative Learning.   
  
    A second link was just found, where there was the PDF file for downloading: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.475.5829&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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