The Potential of Listservs for Continuing Professional Education

Medley, M. Dee

doi:10.1080/07377366.1999.10400372

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“…While there has been some investigation of the impact of listservs on educational outcomes (e.g., Alexander & Newsom, 1998;Medley, 1999), listservs are still usually examined only within the context of other Internet resources. With respect to evaluation specifically, the literature related to listservs focuses almost exclusively on the reporting of results from studies of programs in which listservs are a program component (e.g., Lippert, Plank, & Radhakrishna, 2000;Madison, Deng, & Gifford, 1999).…”

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“…Listservs offer their members the opportunity to post thoughts, suggestions, or questions to a large number of people at the same time. Listservs have been recognized as a means for bridging the barriers of time and space (e.g., Hinds & Kiesler, 2002;Medley, 1999) and for providing a way to share experiences, knowledge, and support to other listserv members (Galegher, Sproull, & Kiesler, 1998). They also provide an occasion for subscribers to stay apprised of significant developments in, and discussions about, a particular discipline, industry, or topic area (Osborne, 1998).…”

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What’s All the Talk About? Examining EVALTALK, an Evaluation Listserv

Christie

Azzam²

2004

American Journal of Evaluation

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Listservs have become a popular computer-mediated method for communicating with others who share a common interest. They offer subscribers quick feedback and provide a forum for ideas and beliefs to be exchanged, discussed, and modified. Although rarely studied, in some practical fields listserves have been shown to increase communication of best practices. EVALTALK is an online evaluation discussion forum, and the official listserv of the American Evaluation Association. The current study examined EVALTALK exchanges generated over a one-year period in order to better understand how the listserv is used by its members. Results from our analysis suggest that a significant proportion of the EVALTALK listserv postings are not directly related to evaluation; however, when lengthy discussions ensue, they are most likely to be evaluation related. Additionally, much of the EVALTALK activity centers on requests for evaluation examples, procedures, and experiences. We also found that the typical subscriber is more likely to be a “lurker” than an active participant.

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What’s All the Talk About? Examining EVALTALK, an Evaluation Listserv

Christie

Azzam²

2004

American Journal of Evaluation

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“…These social communities allow users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions submitted by other users. Similarly, some learning systems, such as Listservs (Medley, 1999), Weblog (Blood, 2002a(Blood, , 2002b and Knowledge Forum (Scadamalia, 2004), also focus on helping learners gain more knowledge and nurture problem-solving skills. Such web-based environments that facilitate interactive conversations with peers have been called Web 2.0, and are recognized to be helpful to learners in obtaining deeper level of knowledge (DeSanctis, Wright, & Jiang, 2001;O'Reilly, 2005;Wang, Huang, Jeng, & Wang, 2008).…”

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An innovative approach for promoting information exchanges and sharing in a Web 2.0-based learning environment

Hwang

Tsai

Chen

2009

Interactive Learning Environments

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Although Web 2.0 technologies have been recognized as effective means of conducting group learning activities, a critical and challenging issue of Web 2.0-based learning is the lack of mechanisms for promoting information exchanges and sharing among participating students. To cope with this problem, an intelligent blog system is proposed in this article to assist teachers in conducting group learning activities on the Internet. In this system, a promotion mechanism is provided to encourage the exchanging and sharing of information and learning resources by collecting and analyzing the frequently asked questions and the historical contents selected from relevant discussion forums. On the basis of the experimental results, the system is proven to be able to fulfill the need of the students and the teachers and also very helpful for enhancing students' learning efficacy.

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“…Such group level discussion helps in grooming individuals as well as uplifting of any profession. The ICTs have provided a variety of facilities for professionals to work together, discuss issues and learn new methods for their professional practices and extended their professional communications from physical to virtual space crossing the limits of geographical boundaries (Choi et al, 2019; Medley, 1999; Roselle, 2001). It has become very convenient for any person to communicate with any group of professionals from any corner of the world through email, blogs, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter, and other myriads of social networking tools (Aswathy and Devi, 2018).…”

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“…Among all these social networking tools, mailing lists are also an important product of ICTs serving faculty, scientists, researchers, students, and many different professionals in establishing an email forum on a common interest to collaborate research and professional activities. These mailing lists are synonymous with Forum, Lists, List Server, Mail Server, Discussion Groups and Computer Conference, and so on, that assist members in swapping information and seeking the answer for the queries from the members of the groups (Dhanvandan and Tamizhchelvan, 2017; Khode, 2012; Medley, 1999; Pujar et al, 2003; Sloan, 2006).…”

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Professional networking with emailing groups: A case of Pakistan Library Automation Group

Siddique

Ullah

Mahmood

et al. 2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Library and Information Science professionals in Pakistan are taking the benefit of emailing groups to seek help from other professionals, share information, and enhance their services. This study aims to present an analysis of all messages posted to plagpk, a pioneer Library and Information Science emailing group in Pakistan. In this study, content analysis of messages posted to the Yahoo mailing group “plagpk” was made from the launching of the group till 14 December 2019. The findings ranked the category of resource sharing at the top position. The study also found that only a small number of group members posted emails to the group, and male group members dominated the female members in terms of sending emails. Library and Information Science professionals in Pakistan are widely using emailing groups to discuss and share professional issues. There is a scarcity of studies related to the use of mailing groups in Pakistan. This study will be helpful for professionals planning to use emailing groups for professional networking.

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The Potential of Listservs for Continuing Professional Education

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

What’s All the Talk About? Examining EVALTALK, an Evaluation Listserv

What’s All the Talk About? Examining EVALTALK, an Evaluation Listserv

An innovative approach for promoting information exchanges and sharing in a Web 2.0-based learning environment

Professional networking with emailing groups: A case of Pakistan Library Automation Group

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