A consistent theoretical and practical challenge in the design of socio-technical systems is that of motivating users to participate in and contribute to them. This study examines...
Cliff Lampe, Rick Wash, Alcides Velasquez, Elif Oz...
Abstract. An exploratory study of students' engagement in online learning and knowledge building is presented in this paper. Learning in an online community, composed of stude...
: For todays organisations to obtain competitive advantages, online corporate Communities of Practice (CoPs) are indispensable. However, often the majority of its participants does...
As online communities proliferate, methods are needed to explore and capture patterns of activity within them. This paper focuses on the problem of identifying active subgroups wi...
Abstract. Communities on the Web capture, represent, and evolve their knowledge using ontologies, either explicitly or implicitly. The Gene Ontology project is a typical and advanc...