Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities

Educational on-line resources are expanding in their application beyond delivering courses to providing venues in which members of professional communities of practice meet to exchange problems, ideas and questions. This paper will discuss two such communities, their similarities and their differences. Design decisions will be suggested to encourage designers and facilitators of such venues to be aware of the community for whom they are designing. Keywords On-line learning community, Human-computer interaction, Communities of practice, User-centred design

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: ETS
• Authors: Liwana S. Bringelson, Tom Carey
• Keywords: Design Decisions, Educational On-line Resources, ETS 2000, Hardware, Professional Communities