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Title: | Strengthening the Community in Order to Enhance Learning |
Authors: | Fetter, Sibren Berlanga, Adriana Sloep, Peter |
Keywords: | Communities social networks e-learning network centralization AHTC Ad Hoc Transient Communities |
Issue Date: | 18-Mar-2008 |
Abstract: | Many online communities have the problem that they are highly dependent on a small core group of users, as well as are highly inefficient in handling requests for collaboration, resulting in a lower willingness to help and less activity. Both problems have far reaching consequences in the case of learning networks (LN) for online learners. A LN cannot exist without a strong community at its heart. Therefore we propose to introduce short goal-specific communities called Ad Hoc Transient Communities (AHTC) in order to restructure the community in such a way that there will be more ties between learners, less dependence on a core group, and more effective handling of requests through the use of matching. This will result in a decentralized community structure with higher activity, which makes the community stronger. |
Description: | Fetter, S., Berlanga, A. J., & Sloep, P. B. (2008). Strengthening the Community in Order to Enhance Learning. In P. Kommers (Ed.), Proceedings of Doctoral Consortium at the IADIS International Conference on Web Based Communities (WEBC 2008) (pp. 285-289). July, 24-26, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IADIS Press. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1820/1199 |
Appears in Collections: | 1. LN: Publications and Preprints 1. TENC: Publications and Preprints |
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