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Project Share... // Online Learning Community // **What is an online learning community?** According to Wikipedia, it is "a common place on the Internet that addresses the learning needs of its members through proactive and collaborative partnerships. People work as a community to achieve a shared learning objective.

**Why use online learning communities in education?** Online learning communities such as Project Share offer a wealth of opportunities and resources for learning, communicating, and collaborating with others. They provide a place for users to communicate with each other and create support groups and networks with others that would not have been possible in another format. Students, parents, teachers, community leaders, educational leaders, and school administrators can establish communication and important relationships with others through an online community which offers resources and support for all who are members.

These online learning communities involve the use of many types of social media tools such as forums, chats, blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, pictures, social bookmarking, and webinars which enable users to communicate, share, teach, learn, collaborate, and create products together.

Take a look at the YouTube video below which provides us with some current information concerning the use of social media today.

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