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SIGCSE
2008
ACM
132views Education» more  SIGCSE 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
A case study of retention practices at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer science is seeing a decline in enrollment at all levels of education. One key strategy for reversing this decline is to improve methods of student retention. This paper, ...
Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin W. Chambers, Heather Metca...
CSCW
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Articulations of wikiwork: uncovering valued work in wikipedia through barnstars
Successful online communities have complex cooperative arrangements, articulations of work, and integration practices. They require technical infrastructure to support a broad div...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
EDUTAINMENT
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Designing Social Navigation for a Virtual Community of Practice
Abstract. Social navigation in a community of practice (CoP) is an approach of locating information through increased social awareness. Designing support for social navigation requ...
Wen Xu, Karel Kreijns, Jun Hu
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Designing palaver tree online: supporting social roles in a community of oral history
As a more diverse population of users moves online, understanding how to help those groups work together and leverage their diverse skills poses a significant challenge for human-...
Jason B. Ellis, Amy Bruckman
HICSS
2009
IEEE
179views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Understanding Continuance Intention of Knowledge Creation in Online Communities from a Social-Psychological Perspective
Grounded on both social cognitive theory and expectation-disconfirmation theory (EDT), this study aims to investigate how individuals’ continuance intention of knowledge creatio...
Shih-Wei Chou, Ching-Chang Lee, Yu-Chieh Chang, Ch...