These are the powerpoint slides from a presentation made at the Be Shaken: Learning for Change conference in September 2004.

Material covered in the slides includes

• What's a community?
  
• What builds community?
  
• What's an online community?
  
• Characteristics of online communities
  
• Tools commonly used in online communities
  
• Guidelines for designing an online community
  
• Some views on learning
  
• Links to further resources (including the excellent Building Communites, Managing Community Content resource which can be found at http://flexiblelearning.net.au/buildingcommunities/index.htm)

The workshop was aimed at the lay person so if you're thinking about setting up an online learning community, these slides may give you a few ideas on how to get started.