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The popularity of e-learning continues to grow as the convenience which it offers appeals to a wide spectrum of people. A significant number of e-learning applications have been developed offering tools of benefit to both tutors and students. Although online communities are popular in other areas, the establishment of these communities within e-learning has been slow. Communication and social interaction among students plays an important part of learning within the classroom and so should be incorporated into online learning environments. This paper presents guidelines for the development of e-learning systems which recognise the importance of communities and social interaction within an online learning scenario. In particular, we describe our own e-learning systems, CLEV-R and its mobile counterpart, mCLEV-R, along with details of the user trials used to evaluate them. Results indicate that these systems create an effective online learning community for students.
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McArdle, G., Monahan, T., Bertolotto, M. (2008). Introducing Communities to e-Learning. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2007. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68262-2_20
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