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Learning in communities : interdisciplinary perspectives on human centered information technology

Subsequently, a special issue of 5 full papers was published in the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and a special section of 2 full papers was published in the International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.
eBook, English, ©2009
Springer, London, ©2009
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (xiv, 266 p.) : illustrations
9781848003323, 9781848003316, 1848003323, 1848003315
514254039
I.- Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning Through ICT.- The Participant-Observer in Community-Based Learning as Community Bard.- Learning in Communities: A Distributed Intelligence Perspective.- Spiders in the Net: Universities as Facilitators of Community-Based Learning.- Designing Technology for Local Citizen Deliberation.- Supporting the Appropriation of ICT: End-User Development in Civil Societies.- Developmental Learning Communities.- Social Reproduction and Its Applicability for Community Informatics.- Communities, Learning, and Democracy in the Digital Age.- Radical Praxis and Civic Network Design.- II.- Local Groups Online: Political Learning and Participation.- Community-Based Learning: The Core Competency of Residential, Research-Based Universities.- Sustaining a Community Computing Infrastructure for Online Teacher Professional Development: A Case Study of Designing Tapped In.- Expert Recommender: Designing for a Network Organization.- Patterns as a Paradigm for Theory in Community-Based Learning.- Architecture, Infrastructure, and Broadband Civic Network Design: An Institutional View.- Supporting Community Emergency Management Planning Through a Geocollaboration Software Architecture.
Papers from a workshop held at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, August 14-17, 2005