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This paper offers initial suggestions for teaching professional social networking as a technical communication practice. Our guidelines build from recent qualitative research analyzing the networking relationships, practices, and technologies that support technical communication entrepreneurship. This research demonstrated how technical communication entrepreneurs perceive networking to be steeped...
In this research, we examine the design, construction, and implementation of a dynamic, easy to use, feedback mechanism for social software. The tool was integrated into an existing university's online learning community (OLC). In line with constructivist learning models and practical information systems (IS) design, the feedback system provides members of the OLC with the capability to rate blog...
Knowledge building is a meaning making process with social negotiation and dialog. In the new environment adapting to the group learning context supported by synergistic learning toolkits, this study explores the community structure-social relation and participation character in classroom knowledge building by Social network analysis. This results show that there come into being a social relation...
This work is based on the premise that online learning environments can potentially help develop communities of scholars by enabling participants to discover persons and resources from contexts other than the original course to which they were assigned. Our software, Prometheus, is being used to support online university level education and teacher professional development under an open community...
Open-source development, social production, social networks and other factors change the way we understand software systems. The paper motivates the use of social thinking to design social software. We report on our experience in teaching a social software engineering course. We evaluate the course and the use of social thinking. We conclude with further research questions.
We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS). Our approach is explicitly participatory: we work with young women to better understand how they view and approach CIS and to build activities that may attract women who would otherwise be disinclined...
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