Fostering institutional collaboration: Building global virtual partners

Multi-User Virtual Environments Fostering Collaboration in Formal Education

This paper is about how serious games based on MUVEs in formal education can foster collaboration. More specifically, it is about a large case-study with four different programs which took place from 2002 to 2009 and involved more than 9,000 students, aged between 12 and 18, from various nations (18 European countries, Israel and the USA). These programs proved highly effective into fostering a...

Building Virtual Communities for Research Collaboration

This paper discusses the problem of how to grow and evolve virtual infrastructures that support the development and growth of geographically dispersed research communities. It will describe ongoing research into personalization within a collaborative environment intended as a “virtual campus”. As part of this research we will provide initial reports on a project that is developing collaborative...

Fostering Civic Engagement by Building a Virtual City

This article focuses on the design and use of networked technologies to create learning environments to foster the civic engagement of youth. First, we briefly describe the Zora three-dimensional multiuser environment that engages children in the design of a graphical virtual city and its social organization. Anecdotal data are then used to help define different aspects of civic engagement, nam...

Global research collaboration: Networks and partners in South East Asia

This is an empirical paper that addresses the role of bilateral and multilateral international coauthorships in the six leading science systems among the ASEAN group of countries (ASEAN6). The paper highlights the different ways that bilateral and multilateral co-authorships structure global networks and the collaborations of the ASEAN6. The paper looks at the influence of the collaboration sty...

Research capacity building-obligations for global health partners.