Six years of lessons learned in monitoring and evaluating online discussion forums

Knowledge Management and E-Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 621-643

  Avila, Megan ^a   Nallathambi, Kavitha ^a   Richey, Catherine ^a   Mwaikambo, Lisa ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Knowledge networking; Knowledge sharing; Monitoring and evaluation; Virtual collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866249091     PISSN: 20737904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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