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CHI
2004
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Think different: increasing online community participation using uniqueness and group dissimilarity
Online communities can help people form productive relationships. Unfortunately, this potential is not always fulfilled: many communities fail, and designers don't have a sol...
Pamela J. Ludford, Dan Cosley, Dan Frankowski, Lor...
CSCL
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Leveraging online communities in fostering adaptive schools
ct There has long been a call for schools to prepare students for the twenty-first 12century where skills and dispositions differ significantly from much of what has historically 1...
David Hung, Kenneth Y. T. Lim, Der-Thanq Victor Ch...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
139views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding the Roles of Knowledge Sharing and Trust in Online Learning Communities
This paper builds upon action and design research aimed at enhancing scholarly community and conversation in a graduate school setting. In this paper we focus on knowledge sharing...
Brian Thoms, Nathan Garrett, Jesus Canelon Herrera...
ITRE
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
A Knowledge Building Community Constructing a Knowledge Model Using Online Concept Maps
Knowledge models are structured representations of knowledge using symbols to represent pieces of knowledge and relationships between them, while a knowledge building community inv...
Moshe Leiba, Rafi Nachmias
HICSS
2007
IEEE
122views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
Visual Conversation Styles in Web Communities
Imagery and picture sharing are an important and growing part of online communities. Many prior studies of online interaction and collaboration rely heavily on text. This study ta...
David W. McDonald