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No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Self-classification and Self-modelling of E-Learning Communities

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Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts (EC-TEL 2008)

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Learning processes are an infinite chain of knowledge transformation initiated by human collaboration. Our intention is to analyze E-Learning commu-nities. The current drawback of communities is a lack of common vocabularies that can be used for an E-Learning community description, design, evolution, and comparison. We examine structural and semantic parameters of E-Learning communities gathered in MediaBase of the PROLEARN Network of Excellence for professional learning. Using the parameters and the community-of-practice theory we define more standard description for a particular community or a set of communities and to identify factors that are essential for identifying overlappings between communities.

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Petrushyna, Z., Klamma, R. (2008). No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: Self-classification and Self-modelling of E-Learning Communities. In: Dillenbourg, P., Specht, M. (eds) Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts. EC-TEL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_40

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