This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It wil...
Monica M. C. Schraefel, Janet Ho, Mark H. Chignell...
A virtual community is a group of people whose shared needs and/or interests are largely communicated within, and mediated by Webenabled interactions, e.g., within a Website. Whil...
Janet Ho, Monica M. C. Schraefel, Mark H. Chignell
This paper describes the development of a framework to build Virtual Communities of Practice in the web. It is part of a larger project named as DWeb (acronym for Dream Web). The p...
In the world of OTIS, an online Internet School for occupational therapists, students from four European countries were encouraged to work collaboratively through problem based le...
More and more CoPs have chosen virtual environments and services to support their activities. However, recent research has underlined several problems: the lack of adequate scaffol...
Bernadette Charlier, France Henri, Amaury Daele, M...