Bibliography

This is a list of important references for online community research.

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Atkins, D. E., Brown, J. S., & Hammond, A. L. (2007). A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities. Menlo Park, CA: Hewlett Foundation.

Barab, S. A. (2003). An Introduction to the Special Issue: Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. The Information Society, 19, 197-201.

Barab, S. A., Barnett, M., Yamagata-Lynch, L., Squire, K., & Keating, T. (2002). Using Activity Theory to Understand the Systemic Tensions Characterizing a Technology-Rich Introductory Astronomy Course. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 9(2), 76-107.

Barab, S. A., Kling, R., & Gray, J. H. (Eds.). (2004). . New York: Cambridge University Press.

Barab, S. A., MaKinster, J. G., & Scheckler, R. (2003). Designing System Dualities: Characterizing a Web-Supported Professional Development Community. The Information Society, 19, 237-256.

Beenen, G. et al. (2004). Using Social Psychology to Motivate Contributions to Online Communities. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(4), Article 10.

Bower, J.M., Foley, B., Witzel, D., & Kennedy, B. (2005). Case study critiques: knowledge provision and community building. Web Designs for Interactive Learning Conference, Ithaca, New York, 15-18 June 2005.

Bruckman, A. (2006). A New Perspective on "Community" and its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems. CHI 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 22-27 April 2006, pp. 616-621.

Butler, B., Sproull, L., Kiesler, S., & Kraut, R. (2007). Community Effort in Online Groups: Who Does the Work and Why? In S. Weisband & L. Atwater (Eds.), Leadership at a Distance, pp 171-194. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Carney, J., Millsap, M. A., Chawla, D., Wiley, A., McCullough, J., Storey, C., Russell, S. (2005). Final Report on the Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Centers for Learning and Teaching Program. Volume 2: Appendices. Cambridge, MA: Abt Associates Inc.

Carroll, J. M., & Farooq, U. (2007). Patterns as a paradigm for theory in community-based learning. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2(1), 41-59.

Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., & Zhou, J. (2005). Collective Efficacy as a Measure of Community. CHI 2005, Portland, Oregon, 2-7 April 2005, pp. 1-10.

Chalmers, L., & Keown, P. (2006). Communities of practice and professional development. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 25(2), 139-156.

Clouder, L., Dalley, J., Hargreaves, J., Parkes, S., Sellars, J., & Toms, J. (2006). Electronic [re]constitution of groups: Group dynamics from face-to-face to an online setting. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 1(4), 467-480.

Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Kiesler, S., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2005). How Oversight Improves Member-Maintained Communities. CHI 2005, Portland, Oregon, 2-7 April 2005, pp. 11-20.

Enyedy, N., & Hoadley, C. M. (2006). From dialogue to monologue and back: Middle spaces in computer-mediated learning. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 1(4), 413-439.

Falk, J. K. & Drayton, B. (Eds.). (2009). Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities. NY: Teachers College Press.

Forsyth, L., & Schaverien, L. (2003). Re-presenting Collective Learning: A Generative Way Forward. SIGGROUP Bull., 24(3), 25-31.

Gray, J., & Tatar, D. (2004). Sociocultural Analysis of Online Professional Development: A Case Study of Personal, Interpersonal, Community, and Technical Aspects. In Barab, S.A., Kling, R., & Gray, J. H. (Eds.), Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hiltz, S. R. (1985). Online Communities: A Case Study of the Office of the Future. Fishponds, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books.

Hoadley, C. M. (2005). To learn is to know: Teaching, communities, social capital, and knowledge management technologies. Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction International: 10. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Hoadley, C. M., & Kilner, P. G. (2005). Using technology to transform communities of practice into knowledge-building communities. SIGGROUP Bull., 25(1), 31-40.

Hoadley, C.M. & Pea, R. D. (Eds.). (2002). Finding the ties that bind: Tools in support of a knowledge-building community. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Kapoor, N., Konstan, J. A., & Terveen, L. G. (2005). How Peer Photos Influence Member Participation in Online Communities. CHI 2005, Portland, Oregon, 2-7 April 2005, pp. 1525-1528.

Kim, A. J. (2000). Community building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Koch, M., & Fusco, J. (2008). Designing for Growth: Enabling Communities of Practice to Develop and Extend their Work Online. In C. Kimble & P. Hildreth (Eds.), Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.

Nichols, D. M., McKay, D., & Twidale, M. B. (2003). Participatory Usability: supporting proactive users. The 4th Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction, Dunedin, New Zealand, 3-4 July 2003.

Powazek, D. M. (2001). Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places. Indianapolis, IN : New Riders.

Preece, J. (2000). Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Sociability. Somerset, NJ: Wiley.

Preece, J., & Maloney-Krichmar, D. (2003). Online Communities: Focusing on sociability and usability. In J. Jacko and A. Sears (Eds.), Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 596-620). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Rashid, A. M., Ling, K., Tassone, R. D., Resnick, P., Kraut, R., & Riedl, J. (2006). Motivating Participation by Displaying the Value of Contribution. ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, 22-27 April 2006, pp. 955-958.

Ren, Y., Kraut, R. E., & Kiesler, S. (2007). Applying common identity and bond theory to the design of online communities. Organizational Studies, 28(3), 379-410.

Rhoten, D. et al. (2008). Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS). Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation.

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Schlager, M. S., Fusco, J., & Schank, P. (2002). Evolution of an On-line Education Community of Practice. In K. A. Renninger and W. Shumar (Eds.), Building virtual communities: Learning and change in cyberspace (pp. 129-158). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schlager, M. S., & Fusco, J. (2003). Teacher Professional Development, Technology, and Communities of Practice: Are We Putting the Cart Before the Horse?. The Information Society, 19(3), 203-220.

Stahl, G. (2000). A Model of Collaborative Knowledge-Building. In B. Fishman & S. O'Connor-Divelbiss (Eds.), Fourth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 70-77). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stahl, G. (2008). Chat on Collaborative Knowledge Building. QWERTY, 3(1). Retrieved from http://gerrystahl.net/pub/qwerty08.pdf.

Stahl, G. (2006). Thinking at the Small-Group Unit of Analysis. Group Cognition: Computer Support for Building Collaborative Knowledge (pp. 431 - 468). Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Sumner, T., & Marlino, M. (2004). Digital libraries and educational practice: a case for new models. The 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries, Tucson, Arizona, 7-11 June 2004.

Torrey, C., McDonald, D. W., Schilit, B. N., & Bly, S. (2007). How-To Pages: Informal Systems of Expertise Sharing. ECSCW 2007: The Tenth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Limerick, Ireland, 24-28 September 2007, pp. 391-410. Netherlands: Springer.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School.

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