Do you know of any authoritative articles/references that can support the usefulness of virtual learning communities.
I am interested in potential benefits for teachers sharing their experiences in math and science teaching.
I would take a look at Barab's work, either Barab, S. A., MaKinster, J. G., Moore, J. A., & Cunningham, D. J. (2001). Designing and building an on-line community: The struggle to support sociability in the Inquiry Learning Forum. from http://inkido.indiana.edu/research/onlinemanu/papers/etrdilf.pdf or Barab, S. A. (2003). Designing for virtual communities in the service of learning. Information Society, 19(3), 1-7. to start. Laura _ Laura O'Grady Ph.D. Candidate OISE / University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/ logrady@oise.utoronto.ca l.ogrady@sympatico.ca _