Understanding the roles of knowledge sharing and trust in online learning communities

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Thoms, Brian ^a   Garrett, Nathan ^a   Herrera, Jesus Canelon ^a   Ryan, Terry ^a  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INTERNET;

KNOWLEDGE SHARING; ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 51449094846     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.481     Document Type: Conference Paper

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