Gray- Informal learning in an online community of practice
As for research design, the study used CoP as a theoretical framework. I noticed that there are also some other studies which used social constructivist theory. Are there any difference between them? Since many participants in community are adults. I took a course "Adult Education" before. There is a theory called Andragogy. Is it possible to have more than one theoretical framework in one research paper?
McDonald & Lilia- legitimate peripheral participation
I am a lurker most of the time in a community. When I was applying for oversea study, I followed two websites regularly. Participants are the people who are the same with me or students who have been already in the USA. Lurking is a form of cognitive apprenticeship. Efimova(2004)said "Listening and reading is learning. It is getting to know community norms and language, picking up trends and staying updated, learning about others and their conversations. All this leads to an awareness of context that makes it much easier to become an active participant when the right moment comes." Unfortunately, the right moment hasn't come for me yet. I seldom go to these websites now. Basically, it means I never become an active participant. So how do you think about this time phrase "the right moment"?
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