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HICSS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Strategies Employed By Participants In Virtual Learning Communities
This paper examines the learning behavior of online students in an asynchronous learning environment. We employ the theoretical lens of an online community of inquiry, to understa...
James Waters, Susan Gasson
KDD
2007
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining Research Communities in Bibliographical Data
Abstract. Extracting information from very large collections of structured, semistructured or even unstructured data can be a considerable challenge when much of the hidden informa...
Osmar R. Zaïane, Jiyang Chen, Randy Goebel
HICSS
1997
IEEE
118views Biometrics» more  HICSS 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory
The phrase "virtual community" is often used to describe long term, computer-mediated conversations amongst large groups. This paper suggests that such conversations may...
Thomas Erickson
MIE
2008
140views Healthcare» more  MIE 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Clinical Processes in an Innovative Vascular Surgeon Community. Implications for Workflow Modeling
: Objective: To identify factors influencing variations in clinical work in the care of patients with abdominal aortic aneurism. Method: Ethnographic observations of 26 meetings be...
Berit Brattheim, Andreas R. Seim, Arild Faxvaag
WIKIS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Herding the cats: the influence of groups in coordinating peer production
Peer production systems rely on users to self-select appropriate tasks and “scratch their personal itch”. However, many such systems require significant maintenance work, whic...
Aniket Kittur, Bryan A. Pendleton, Robert E. Kraut