Exposure and support of latent social networks among learning object repository users

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1717-1738

  Han, Peng ^a   Kortemeyer, Gerd ^b   Krämer, Bernd J ^a   Von Prümmer, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community building; Learning object; Metadata; Repository; Sharing and reuse; Structural computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049112021     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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