Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities

Hardback

Main Details

Title Network-Based Classrooms: Promises and Realities
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Bertram C. Bruce
Edited by Joy Kreeft Peyton
Edited by Trent Batson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:316
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780521416368
ClassificationsDewey:371.1
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 25 June 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Students in network-based classrooms converse in writing through the use of communications software on local-area computer networks. Through the electronic medium they are immersed in a writing community - one that supports new forms of collaboration, authentic purposes for writing, writing across the curriculum, and new social relations in the classroom. The potential for collaborative and participatory learning in these classrooms is enormous. This book examines an important type of network-based classroom known as ENFI (Electronic Networks For Interaction). Teachers have set up ENFI or similar classrooms in elementary and secondary schools and at more than a hundred colleges and universities. In these settings, teaching and learning have been dramatically transformed, but the new technology has brought with it difficulties and surprises. The process of creating such a classroom raises important questions about the meaning and the realities of educational change.

Reviews

"...presents an important contribution that will facilitate future explorations of network-based classrooms." Sibylle Gruber, Computers and Composition