In this paper we describe the results of a controlled study of a social game, Magpies, which was built on the Facebook Online Social Network (OSN) and enhanced with contextual soc...
Ben Kirman, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Francesco...
We reported a study that analyzes collaborative information behavior of small groups in an online math discourse community. Taking group as the unit of analysis, we analyzed the so...
People come to online communities seeking information, encouragement, and conversation. When a community responds, participants benefit and become more committed. Yet interactions...
Jaime Arguello, Brian S. Butler, Elisabeth Joyce, ...
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...