Developing and sustaining a national learning-object sharing network: A social capital theory perspective

ASCILITE 2005 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 105-114

  Brosnan, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Digital repositories; Learning objects; Sharing; Social capital theory; Social dilemmas

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; DIGITAL REPOSITORY; LEARNING-OBJECTS; SHARING; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL DILEMMAS;

DYNAMICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78049357561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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