The proper exploitation of Web-based technologies towards building responsive environments that motivate, engage, and inspire learners, and are embedded in the business processes and human resources management systems of organizations, is highly critical. Web-Based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice: Developing Virtual Environments for Social and Pedagogical Advancement provides cutting-edge research on a wide range of topics and discusses their implications within the modern era s broad learning concept. Addressing diverse conceptual, social, and technical issues, this book provides professionals, researchers, and academicians with up-to-date research in developing innovative and more effective learning systems through the use of Web-based technologies.
Author(s): Nikos Karacapilidis
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 394
Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 19
The Impact of Quality E-Feedback as an Element of Social Learning Theory Applied in the Context of E-Learning Communities of Practice......Page 24
A Document Reuse Tool for Communities of Practice......Page 36
Tackling Acceptability Issues in Communities of Practice by Providing a Lightweight Email-Based Interface to Social Software......Page 49
Supporting Communities of Practice by Advancing Knowledge Management Between Hybrid Collaborative Environments......Page 61
Using Graphs in Developing Educational Material......Page 78
Using Storytelling as the Pedagogical Model for Web-Based Learning in Communities of Practice......Page 90
Mining Unnoticed Knowledge in Collaboration Support Systems......Page 106
Live Virtual Technologies to Support Extended Events in Online Communities of Practice......Page 118
Individual Learning and Emotional Characteristics in Web-based Communities of Practice......Page 136
From ‘Collecting’ to ‘Deciding’: Facilitating the Emergence of Decisions in Argumentative Collaboration......Page 151
An Organizational Knowledge Circulation Management System for Universities......Page 166
Using Web-Based Technologies and Communities of Practice for Transformative Hybridand Distance Education......Page 179
The Role of Learner in an Online Community of Inquiry Instructor Support for First time Online Learners......Page 190
Visualising the Invisiblein Science Centres and Science Museums: Augmented Reality (AR) Technology Application and Science Teaching......Page 208
A Proposed Framework for Designing Sustainable Communities for Knowledge Management Systems......Page 233
An Agent System to Manage Knowledge in CoPs......Page 253
A Process-Oriented and Technology-Based Model of Virtual Communities of Practices: Evidence from a Case Study in Higher Education......Page 272
The IntelCities Community of Practice: The eGov Services Model for Socially Inclusive and Participatory Urban Regeneration Programs......Page 286
The Argentine IT Professionals Forum: Building the Basis for the Back Office through Communities of Practice......Page 308
Conditions and Key Success Factors for the Management of Communities of Practice......Page 329
Compilation of References......Page 353
About the Contributors......Page 382
Index......Page 392
