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Building and sustaining community in asynchronous learning networks

by: Alfred P Rovai
The Internet and Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 4. ( 2000), pp. 285-297.


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This article applies the concept of classroom community to asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) by taking on the issue of how best to design and implement a course that fosters community among learners who are physically separated from each other. The following factors that can influence sense of community among distant learners are examined: student-instructor ratio, transactional distance, social presence and instructor immediacy, lurking, social equality, collaborative learning, group facilitation, and self-directed learning.


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