Voices in the Feminine - Digital Delights

"The key elements of such communities for learning are:

• Connect people through meaningful activity, tasks and challenges – student to student, student to faculty, student to others around the world, students to knowledge resources.
• Provide a shared context for people to communicate and share information, evidence, cases, and personal experiences in a way that builds understanding and insight.
• Enable dialogue between people who come together to learn, explore new knowledge and skills, solve challenging problems, and create new, mutually beneficial opportunities.
• Stimulate learning by serving as a vehicle for authentic communication, mentoring, coaching, formative assessment and self-reflection.
• Capture and diffuse existing knowledge to help people improve their practice by providing a forum to identify solutions to common problems and a process to collect and evaluate best practices.
• Introduce collaborative processes to student groups, as well as between students and other organizations, to encourage the free flow of ideas and exchange of information.
• Help students organize around purposeful actions that deliver tangible learning outcomes.
• Generate new knowledge to help people transform their practice to accommodate changes in needs and technologies."