Open social learning communities

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ram, Ashwin ^a   Ai, Hua ^a   Ram, Preetha ^b   Sahay, Saurav ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

social learning

Indexed keywords

BLENDED LEARNING; CURRENT MODELS; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; EDUCATION RESOURCE; HIGH QUALITY; SOCIAL LEARNING;

SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79960602929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1988688.1988691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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