TYPES OF ELECTRONIC GROUPS:

Learning Communities

Consistent with the notion of learning communities, faculty can group students with people in the community, professionals in the field, other faculty on campus, or students at other schools. In the screen shot below, students in a multimedia course were grouped with a faculty member on campus to create real multimedia projects. The students could exchange multimedia files as they worked to build a module for their assigned faculty "client." The client could review the students' work and provide feedback or suggested revisions.

Electronic groups can also promote intedisciplinary projects. You can group students together from two or more university courses (e.g., electrical engineering, civil engineering). Each student has a role to play in the project, and the project requires the input of each student to succeed.