Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to desi...
In this paper, we report on our experience in designing and delivering two new software design courses in the Informatics major at UC Irvine. When the major was created in 2004, i...
Social annotation systems such as SparTag.us and del.icio.us have been designed to encourage individual reading and marking behaviors that, when shared, accumulate to build collect...
Les Nelson, Gregorio Convertino, Peter Pirolli, Li...
New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a give...
This paper describes experiences with on-line and in-class sections of a writing-intensive course, including a collaborative library literacy unit. It reports on a mid-semester so...