Community-based learning: The core competency of residential, research-based universities

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-40

  Fischer, Gerhard ^a   Rohde, Markus ^b,c   Wulf, Volker ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c International Institute for Socio Informatics   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Community based learning; Courses in practice (cip); Courses as seeds; Distributed intelligence; Social capital; Social creativity; Symmetry of ignorance; Transdisciplinary education; Undergraduate research apprenticeship program

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247210294     PISSN: 15561607     EISSN: 15561615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11412-007-9009-1     Document Type: Article

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