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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Why are scientific collaborations so difficult to sustain? Inspired by the vision of Wulf (1989, 1993) and others, researchers over the last 25 years have made a number of large-scale attempts to build computer-supported scientific collaboration environments, often called collaboratories (National Research Council, 1993). Introduction.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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Resources include not only static text and media but also dynamic services and their artefacts, such as instant messaging, online forum and weblog conversations. Only some VLEs provide shared file areas and collaborative facilities like chat and discussion forums. In North America the commercial vendors of VLEs dominate.

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