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This is one of those titles that are owned by Springerlink. What I reaaly like are the tags suggested: I've recycled them here Information Overload - Emergency Management - communities of practice - professional communications - recommender systems Abstract Thirty four professionals who are part of a community of practice in the field of health related emergency response management provided information about the sources of information that they currently use the most, as well as their unmet information needs, and the kinds of information systems tools they would like to have. This professional community relies heavily on the Web, but they report severe information overload, in terms of not easily being able to find the kinds of information they want, amid the deluge of information that is there. In particular, they would find a system that uses social tagging and social recommender system features to be very useful for accessing relevant documents in the "gray literature." We suggest that services such as these will be increasingly important for professional communities in general.

List of publications related to education and learning - and PD for teachers

Innovation Communication in Multicultural Networks: Deficits in Inter-cultural Capability and Affect-based Trust as Barriers to New Idea Sharing in Inter-Cultural Relationships..

The Future of LEarning - fifth generation distance learning

Hi brenda, can you tell what you like about this doc? In the world of e-learning, we tend to take a doc on the future of e-learning dating 2001 not to serious anymore. Nevertheless, we can learn from looking back and see if our predictions in the past are realized.

Good question, Joost. It really is a historical document. I am looking for frameworks for different ways that people understand learning theory related to online learning. Taylor's five generation framework was something I hadn't seen before - but since I marked this one, I found the breakdown in another document as well - so maybe it is more common than I thought and maybe it is a way of looking at the history that others are already familiar with. For me, it was a new way. I think it is a good idea to annotate these when we mark them and I will try to do that. Sometimes i am in a hurry and skip that step, but it would be more helpful (even to me!) if I did not