Designing Virtual Portfolios for Communities of Practice
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This paper addresses the problems of engagement, interaction and 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 (Wenger 2000), with reference to past and future web-based designs. Finally, the paper suggests the concept and principled 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.
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