Different (Key)strokes for Different Folks: Designing online venues for professional communities
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Educational on-line resources are expanding in their application beyond delivering courses to providing venues in which members of professional communities of practice meet to exchange problems, ideas and questions. This paper will discuss two such communities, their similarities and their differences. Design decisions will be suggested to encourage designers and facilitators of such venues to be aware of the community for whom they are designing.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Educational Technology & Society
دوره 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000