Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors influencing the growth of
healthcare virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) through a seven-year longitudinal study …

This book concerns scientific and technical issues that are of a high interest for several
aspects of the Informatics1 of the future. It is not the case to paint a surface of “dialogism” …

Purpose–Online programs rely on the use of educational technology for knowledge sharing
in academic virtual communities of practice (vCoPs). This poses the question as to which …

Up to now, the relationships among the fundamental notions of communities of practice
(CoPs), ie knowledge, participation, identity, and artifact development have been based …

Combining adaptive hypermedia methods with strategies proposed by instructional theory
and motivation models, an adaptable tutorial was designed and developed. The aim of this …

Interactive online help systems are considered to be a fruitful supplement to traditional IT
helpdesks, which are often overloaded. They often comprise user-generated FAQ …

In contrast to many other scientific disciplines, computer science considers conference
publications. Conferences have the advantage of providing fast publication of papers and of …

Conferences play an important role in scientific community building, and in cooperation and
dissemination related to Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). In this article we analyze the …

In blogospheres the learning process is characterized by evolving roles of bloggers and
dynamic change of content. Existing approaches for learning blogospheres do not provide a …

In this paper we studyconnectivity between leading universities and academic institutions in
the area of computer science for Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The research is based on …