The Offline Nature of Online Community

Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community out...

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Autor principal:	Sharla Berry
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2019
Materias:	community online learning social presence face-to-face interaction orientation Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/6f8512ecbabd4cb7a984d93037a7b8c7
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6f8512ecbabd4cb7a984d93037a7b8c72021-12-02T17:16:18ZThe Offline Nature of Online Community10.19173/irrodl.v20i2.38961492-3831https://doaj.org/article/6f8512ecbabd4cb7a984d93037a7b8c72019-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3896https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community outside of class. In the case study I explore how students use social media and group texting apps to develop relationships with peers. I also explore how online students connect in-person at study groups and sporting events. Lastly, I consider the ways in which a three-day, in-person orientation helped online students connect on and offline. Findings indicate that online students’ perceptions of community were not limited to their in-class experiences. In addition to their in-class interactions, online students were impacted by their extracurricular interactions in digital and physical spaces. Sharla BerryAthabasca University Pressarticlecommunityonline learningsocial presenceface-to-face interactionorientationSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 20, Iss 2 (2019)
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description	Despite the importance of interpersonal contact to students’ sense of community, little is known about how online students form relationships outside of class. Drawing on interviews with 20 students from one online doctoral program, I explore the ways in which distance learners create community outside of class. In the case study I explore how students use social media and group texting apps to develop relationships with peers. I also explore how online students connect in-person at study groups and sporting events. Lastly, I consider the ways in which a three-day, in-person orientation helped online students connect on and offline. Findings indicate that online students’ perceptions of community were not limited to their in-class experiences. In addition to their in-class interactions, online students were impacted by their extracurricular interactions in digital and physical spaces.
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The Offline Nature of Online Community

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