Title :
Tools to support on-line communities for learning
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Helsinki Univ., Finland
Abstract :
Higher education is not only about transmitting knowledge; it is about becoming a member of an expert community. Contemporary tools for on-line learning can be used in opening the learning environment and making the learning process more transparent so that the learners can rely on and benefit from each other in peer-to-peer fashion.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; distance learning; further education; teaching; expert community; higher education; knowledge transmission; on-line community; on-line learning; peer-to-peer fashion network; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Computer science; Computer science education; Internet; Learning systems; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Peer to peer computing; Resource management; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2003. Proceedings. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1967-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2003.1215222
