Virtual Communities: A Way to Connect Students in an Internship Program

By Vicki L. Gregory.

Published by The International Journal of Learning

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A virtual community has been established for students enrolled in supervised fieldwork to prevent them from feeling isolated from other students and the faculty of the University.

Keywords: Student Internships, Virtual Communities, Professional Education

International Journal of Learning, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp.51-54. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 840.941KB).

Dr. Vicki L. Gregory

Vicki L. Gregory is Professor and Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida. She holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and a Master of Library Service and a Master of Arts in history from the University of Alabama. She has been on the USF faculty since 1988. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu and Phi Alpha Theta. Dr Gregory is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Society for Information Science and Technology and a Member-at-Large on the Library Research Round Table Steering Committee. She is the author of numerous articles including: "The Changing Library Education Curriculum," Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (Hershey, PA: Idea Group Reference, 2005): 2799-2802; "Student Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Web-based Distance Education," New Library World 104, no. 10 (2003): 426-431; "Toward Improving Student Learning: Policy Issues and Design Structures in Course-Level Outcomes Assessment" Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 28, no.3 (2003): 215-227.

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