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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The Information Use Behaviors of Graduate Students in an Online Learning Community Abstract: As online education expands, research should identify how students interact and learn online. Because of the technological, proximal and asynchronous uniqueness of online education, learners face challenges not native to face-to-face education. As such, online students may seek alternate relationships and methods of interacting, forming their own "Small Worlds." Online students have their own "view of social reality, and ways in which they satisfy their intellectual, social, and physical needs" (Chatman, 1991, p. 438). Small Worlds allow people "to share a similar cultural and intellectual space" (Huotari & Chatman, 2001, p. 352), and members "share a repertoire of resources and sensibilities communally developed over time" (Wenger, 1998, p. 2). Chatman"s theory of Small Worlds is a spatial and social lens through which to examine information behavior; in this instance the online learning environment is a virtual space that fosters and shapes the information behaviors of its participants. |
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