Overview article that summarizes some of the advantages of creating an online learning community for classroom learners and describes some of the techniques employed to support such a community. The strongest part of the paper is about halfway through as the author lingers on the topic of assessment through critical review. Citing Habermas in this context was a bit over the top, though. A view of online community as "discourses as performances in which one seeks to show the grounds for cognitive utterances" is a very narrow construal of what could (and should) happen in online community. Still, that aspect of community is worth exploring, and the author does a good job of it.
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