Community at a Distance: Employing a Community of Practice Framework in Online Learning for Rural Students

• DOI: 10.3138/jelis.2018-0056
• Publication Date: 2019-10-18T14:18:32Z
• Authors: Sue C. Kimmel; Elizabeth Burns; Jeffrey DiScala
• Keywords: Community of practice; Online Community; Leverage (statistics); Isolation

Library and information science education today must prepare future professionals to leverage various technologies develop professional networks that will propel them into careers. Increasingly, today’s need understand how create identities, build relationships, engage in productive work with others an online, digital environment. A community of practice framework may help promote the kinds interactions identity needed online course Additionally, application a setting serve mitigate geographic isolation characterizes rural librarianship.