Learning in Communities Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Centered Information Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carroll, John M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-332-3

Most learning takes place in communities. People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. Such learning is important in contemporary society because formal education cannot prepare people for a world that changes rapidly and continually. We need to live in le...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section 1
• Community Inquiry and Informatics
• The Participant-Observer in Community-based Learning as Community Bard
• Learning in Communities
• Spiders in the Net
• Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation
• Supporting the Appropriation of ICT
• Developmental Learning Communities
• Social Reproduction and its Applicability for Community Informatics
• Communities, Learning and Democracy in the Digital Age
• Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design
• Section 2
• Local Groups Online
• Community-based Learning
• Sustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development
• Expert Recommender
• Patterns as a Paradigm for theory in community based learning
• Infrastructures as Institutions
• Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning through a Geo-collaboration Software Architecture.