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

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Bafoutsou and Mentzas (2002) reviewed this literature and mapped it onto the specific technology functionalities of modern groupware systems. In spring of 2002 the Science of Collaboratories project started putting together a database of collaboratories that would be the most comprehensive analysis of such projects to date.

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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. Through the project they will define the scope, review the theory, come up with scenarios (use cases), look for and document patterns, and define some specifications.

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