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Context, Definitions, Resources, & Challenges

• What is a "community"?
• Community for whom?  Connecting whom?
• Groups may be characterized by terms ranging from "Hostility" to "Chaos" to "Intimacy":  What do these [and related] terms mean to you? 
• “Nurturing Communities”  Role of “Compassionate Pioneers”
• Boundaries (place, space, time, include/exclude ...)
• Sense of belonging:  Psychological Sense of Community Four Factors

Related Resources

• Books
• Websites
• Community, Fundamental Questions for 9/11 - Audio Narrated Slides

• Vision(s) Worth Working Toward for BCCOOC
• Rationale for BCCOOC Series
• Education Models:  Engagement vs. Delivery System
• New/Old Increasing Challenges
  • New Paradigm(s) vs. Old Paradigm(s):  "Paradigm Lost"?
  • Managing and achieving expectations
  • Online vs. Face-to-Face  &
    Online AND Face-to-Face
    [Online never the same as face-to-face!]
  • Depersonalization vs. Personalization
• Opposition to "Community."
  How can we establish some semblance of community and connectedness within a context that does NOT naturally support community and connectedness?   When some of the likely participants do not want to be part of a community?
  [I.e., college/university culture of individual creativity, competition, independence, academic freedom]
  How much can faculty trust students?   Others trust others?