An Infrastructure for Collaborative Learning in Virtual Knowledge Spaces

Classical knowledge production is an author-centred process. The emergence of cooperative internet technologies like wikis or blogs show a shift towards stronger cooperative production and communication of knowledge, closing the gap between readers and authors. The incorporation of such participatory mechanisms into CSCL/CSCW systems poses several new requirements. We present an open service infrastructure that provides an architecture meeting these demands, while integrating itself into a network of already established services.