Gender and Moderation: The Style's The Thing! Export

@incollection{CLEE_2_19, abstract = {The chapter offers an approach for improving student participation in virtual or distributed Communities of Practice (vCoPs or dCoPs) through changes in the style of moderation. It describes some research into the possible effect of gender-bias on the duration and success of communities. Examples of male and female discourse styles and similar gender-influenced behaviour in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) are given, and a classification of these is advanced. The research method involves a case-history analysis of the monitoring of four selected vCoPs, concluding that, in this type of environment (dispersed, CMC, and extended over a period), participants are more encouraged to learn from e-moderators who have been trained in, and understand, the importance of recognizing male and female styles of moderating.}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Dodge, Valentina and Vine, Sheila}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = {19}, citeulike-article-id = {2662165}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_19.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {book, clee, cmc, communication, dcop, discourse, discussion\_groups, distributed\_community\_of\_practice, facilitation, gender, moderation, tapped-in, teaching\_english\_as\_a\_foreign\_language, tefl, vcop, virtual\_community\_of\_practice}, pages = {395--416}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {Gender and Moderation: The Style's The Thing!}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_19.html}, volume = {2}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_2_19 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662165 N2 - The chapter offers an approach for improving student participation in virtual or distributed Communities of Practice (vCoPs or dCoPs) through changes in the style of moderation. It describes some research into the possible effect of gender-bias on the duration and success of communities. Examples of male and female discourse styles and similar gender-influenced behaviour in Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) are given, and a classification of these is advanced. The research method involves a case-history analysis of the monitoring of four selected vCoPs, concluding that, in this type of environment (dispersed, CMC, and extended over a period), participants are more encouraged to learn from e-moderators who have been trained in, and understand, the importance of recognizing male and female styles of moderating. AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 416 TI - Gender and Moderation: The Style's The Thing! PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 2 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators SP - 395 KW - book KW - clee KW - cmc KW - communication KW - dcop KW - discourse KW - discussion_groups KW - distributed_community_of_practice KW - facilitation KW - gender KW - moderation KW - tapped-in KW - teaching_english_as_a_foreign_language KW - tefl KW - vcop KW - virtual_community_of_practice AU - Dodge, Valentina AU - Vine, Sheila A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_19.html ER -