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Title:
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INSIGHTS OF LEARNING COMMUNITY OF PRACTICES IN GLOBAL CONTEXT |
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Author(s):
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Karen Yi-Chwen Kuo, Chi-Syan Lin |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-29-6 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Tomayess Issa, Dian-Fu Chang and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Community of Practice, Virtual Learning Environments, Project-based Learning, International Collaborative Learning, Networked Learning Behaviors |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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129 |
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Last Page:
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132 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The study first claims that learning community of practice play a significant role in the fields of virtual or online learning. But there are few evidences or knowledge so far about how school students behave in the virtual learning environment in terms of learning behaviors and interpersonal interaction. The study explores patterns of community of practice, which is a combination of participants online learning behaviors and interpersonal interaction, in global context. Ultimately, there are two pillars with respect to the goals of the study. One of the goals is to explore the patterns in interpersonal interaction and how people engage in learning community in the virtual learning space in general. The other goal of the study is to investigate and explore the difference among students across countries in specific in terms of learning behaviors based on the aggregated data from the first pillar. The study responds abovementioned goals with empirical data and statistic measures. |
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