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BEHAVIOURIT
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Reality is our laboratory: communities of practice in applied computer science
This paper presents a longitudinal study of the course ‘High-tech Entrepreneurship and New Media’. The course design is based on socio-cultural theories of learning and consid...
Markus Rohde, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke, Volker ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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13 years 5 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...
GROUP
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Data at work: supporting sharing in science and engineering
Data are a fundamental component of science and engineering work, and the ability to share data is critical to the validation and progress of science. Data sharing and reuse in so...
Jeremy P. Birnholtz, Matthew J. Bietz
CSCW
2002
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Physical and Virtual Tools: Activity Theory Applied to the Design of Groupware
Activity theory is based on the concept of tools mediating between subjects and objects. In this theory, an individual's creative interaction with his or her surroundings can ...
Morten Fjeld, Kristina Lauche, Martin Bichsel, Fre...
CSIE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 days ago
On the Effectiveness of Collaborative Tagging Systems for Describing Resources
This article investigates the effectiveness of community generated tags as social descriptors of resources uncoordinatedly annotated by community members. Our goal is to demonstra...
Jinsheng Xu, Christo Dichev, Albert C. Esterline, ...