Sustaining Online Learning Communities Through Constructive Controversy

    To my surprise, the article "Creating and Sustaining Online Learning Communities: Designing for Transformative Learning" has a second part published on the same issue of International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning (2009, Issue 5). The article continues to address the issue of sustaining an online learning community. This article brought in two key factors that were believed to sustain online learning community through constructive controversy: critical discourse and parallel leadership. 
     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 (Part II) click for the link.   

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  1. V DiwanjiJuly 22, 2018 at 3:36 PM

    Thanks for sharing the link, Darcey. It's a great read. I think they make sense when they talk about critical discourse and parallel leadership. Establishing a community that can sustain itself through the constructive controversy of learning is essential if the community is to effectively engage in knowledge creation and personal transformation through learning. Great point! Thanks again!

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