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Electronic documents and electronic communication spaces hold a key position in CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) environments. They allow information exchange and knowledge sharing between learners. In this paper, we present two approaches to tackle them. The first one deals with the use of structured documents by templates to make them easier to write and read. The second appro...

We have interviewed four parents and a teacher at a Swedish preschool to investigate the practices for spreading information in preschool. Our findings suggest that frequent presence in the premises of the preschool is important to get information, and that parents rely heavily on routines to make it work. When either of these points fail, breakdowns occur. Discrepancies in parents’ and teacher...

DISCLAIMER The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of Transportation's University Transportation Centers Program, in the interest of information exchange. The U.S. Government assumes no liability for the contents...

A final report submitted to the Infrastructure Technology Institute for TEA-21 funded projects designated A487, W420, and A212 DISCLAIMER: The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the information presented herein. This Document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation University of Transporta...

Attila Szolnoki,1 Matjaž Perc,2 and Mauro Mobilia3 Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia Department of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics, University of ...

While the importance of establishing effective communication between the multiple and often conflicting stakeholders in a typical IS project is non-controversial and well supported in the IS project management literature, this paper argues that the traditional approach to achieving this goal is limited by its ontological and epistemological view of what constitutes effective discourse. Specific...

Economic mechanisms enhance technological solutions by setting the right incentives to reveal information about demand and supply accurately. Market or pricing mechanisms are ones that foster information exchange and can therefore attain efficient allocation. By assigning a value (also called utility) to their service requests, users can reveal their relative urgency or costs to the service. Th...