Introduction John M Carroll Section 1 Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning through ICT Ann Peterson Bishop, Bertrum C Bruce and Cameron Jones The Participant-Observer in Community-based Learning as Community Bard John M Carroll Learning in Communities: A Distributed Intelligence Perspective Gerhard Fischer Spiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-based Learning Gerhard Fischer, Markus Rohde and Volker Wulf Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation Andrea Kavanaugh and Philip Isenhour Supporting the Appropriation of ICT: End-User Development in Civil Societies Volmar Pipek, Mary Beth Rosson, Gunnar Stevens and Volker Wulf Developmental Learning Communities Mary Beth Rosson and John M Carroll Social Reproduction and its Applicability for Community Informatics Lynette Kvasny Communities, Learning and Democracy in the Digital Age Lynette Kvasny, Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina Schement Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design Murali Venkatesh and Jeffrey Owens Section 2 Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation Andrea Kavanaugh, Than Than Zin, Mary Beth Rosson, John M Carroll, Joseph Schmitz and B Joon Kim Community-based Learning: The core cometency of residential, research-based universities Gerhard Fischer, Markus Rohde and Volker Wulf Sustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development: A case study of designing Tapped In Umer Farooq, Patricia Schank, Alexandra Harris, Judith Fusco and Mark Schlager Expert Recommender: Designing for a Network Organization Tim Reichling, Michael Veith and Volker Wulf Patterns as a Paradigm for theory in community based learning John MCarroll and Umer Farooq Infrastructures asInstitutions Murali Venkatesh and Mawaki Chango Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning through a Geo-collaboration Software Architecture Wendy A Schafer, Craig H Ganoe and John M Carroll
About the Author:

John M. Carroll is Edward M. Frymoyer Chair Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to networking tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and design of interactive information systems. Carroll serves on several editorial and advisory boards and is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interactions. He received the Rigo Award and the CHI Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Silver Core Award from International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), and the Goldsmith Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.