Introduction -- Section 1 -- Community Inquiry and Informatics -- The Participant-Observer in Community-based Learning as Community Bard -- Learning in Communities -- Spiders in the Net -- Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation -- Supporting the Appropriation of ICT -- Developmental Learning Communities -- Social Reproduction and its Applicability for Community Informatics -- Communities, Learning and Democracy in the Digital Age -- Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design -- Section 2 -- Local Groups Online -- Community-based Learning -- Sustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development -- Expert Recommender -- Patterns as a Paradigm for theory in community based learning -- Infrastructures as Institutions -- Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning through a Geo-collaboration Software Architecture
Summary
People continually learn through their participation with others in everyday activities. This title gathers together the scholarly materials directly emanating from a workshop held in August 2005, when a multidisciplinary group of scholars met at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology to discuss 'learning in communities'