Project-based work via telecommunications requires the instructor and the students to take explicit steps to create an on-line community that is focused on high quality learning a...
Online communities are increasingly important in modern social life. Yet, the diverse collection of guidelines that have directed online community design may not be keeping pace w...
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...
This paper examines sustained, socially-situated engagement in online learning communities. We propose three levels of engagement that are examined through an empirical study of j...