Guidelines for Facilitating Online Communities

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The lack of interaction in online communities leads to learners’ feeling of isolation. Learning communities can provide learners with an environment conducive to increased interactions and alleviate their feeling of isolation. Guidelines for online instructors to facilitate the development of learning communities in online courses are presented in this paper.

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Guidelines for Facilitating the Development of
Learning Communities in Online Courses.
J. Yuan & C. Kim (2014)

Chang (2003) suggests the following qualities:

Carlen and Jobring
(2005) also, suggest

Salient features of the learning community can be summarized as:

What is a community of learning and who coined the term community of practice?

Laxton & Applebee
(2010); Roberts (2006) suggest

What are some guidelines for helping students develop online learning communities?

Some questions to consider before going further:

Why learners feel isolated?

Lock (2002) in his conceptual
paper presented guidelines for creating online communities

Liu et al. (2007) in their empirical
study presented

Snyder (2009) gave a conceptual
framework (cont)

Snyder (2009) gave a conceptual
framework

Garrison et al., (1999) provided further suggestions

Summary of the paper