Virtual Portfolios for Collaboration in Distributed Web-Based Learning [electronic resource] / Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Haakon Tolsby and Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld.

This paper addresses the problems of collaboration in distributed Web-based learning. It reviews, treats and discusses these problems from the learning theoretical perspective of "communities of practice" as presented by Etienne Wenger (1998), with reference to past and future Web-based de...

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Main Author: Sorensen, Elsebeth Korsgaard
Other Authors: Tolsby, Haakon, Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2002.
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Summary:This paper addresses the problems of collaboration in distributed Web-based learning. It reviews, treats and discusses these problems from the learning theoretical perspective of "communities of practice" as presented by Etienne Wenger (1998), with reference to past and future Web-based designs. The paper suggests the concept and design of virtual portfolio as a pedagogical tool to be implemented in the virtual environment for the enhancement of distributed collaboration in Web-based learning. Includes three figures. (Contains 14 references.) (Author)
Item Description:ERIC Document Number: ED477096.
Availability: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), P.O. Box 3728, Norfolk, VA 23514. Tel: 757-623-7588; e-mail: info@aace.org; Web site: http://www.aace.org/DL/.
ERIC Note: In: edition-MEDIA 2002 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications. Proceedings (14th, Denver, Colorado, June 24-29, 2002); see IR 021 687.
Physical Description:7 pages.