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Yes, both corporate trainers and professors absolutely have to address the implications and opportunities of Web 2.0

But the contexts and cultures of corporate training and higher education are so vastly different.

Tom Werner posted some ways they differ.

This review looks at a number of key factors important to growing successful online learning communities and provides some relevant strategies for this.

Source: Futurelab

Community building in online distance education is important to a successful learning experience because it alleviates feelings of isolation for both students and faculty members. Ruth E. Brown describes the process by which students become part of an online distance education community, identifying three stages: “making friends,” “community conferment,” and the development of “camaraderie” (Brown, 2001). The purpose of this article is to present concrete, specific, and practical pedagogical strategies to implement Ruth E. Brown’ 3-stage theory of community building in online distance learning courses.

Source: JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching