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Network-Based Classrooms

Promises and Realities

Joy Kreeft Peyton editor Bertram C Bruce editor Trent Batson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th May '93

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This 1993 study examines the implications of the Electronic Networks for Interaction system for the teaching curriculum.

Developed at Gallaudet University to allow deaf students to communicate via a local-area computer network, variations of the Electronic Networks for Interaction system are now used at more than 100 other schools. This 1993 study examines the process's implications for the teaching curriculum.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 1993 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.

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

ISBN: 9780521457026

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 435g

316 pages