The development of e-government enhances not only the publicagency relation but also inter-organizational cooperation between governmental agencies. In this context the promotion of knowledge distribution favors the application of existing techniques and approaches in Knowledge Management Systems. Especially, to exchange “knowledge in evolution” from different disciplines, one needs some groupw...

From a viewpoint of “knowledge management”, collaborative space for learning is an aid to encourage organizational members (e.g. employee) to acquire or create important organizational intellect (e.g. knowledge) through group activity (e.g. a free discussion). In this paper we focus on design of collaborative space, which is a key for organization to grow, and aim to improve the quality of coll...

As online discussion boards become a popular medium for collaborative problem solving, we would like to understand patterns of group interactions that lead to collaborative learning and better performance. In this paper, we present an approach for assessing collaboration in online discussion, by profiling student-group participation. We use a modularity function to compute optimal discussion gr...

As online discussion boards become a popular medium for collaborative problem solving, we would like to understand patterns of group interactions that lead to collaborative learning and better performance. In this paper, we present an approach for assessing collaboration in online discussion, by profiling student-group participation. We use a modularity function to compute optimal discussion gr...

Online discussions are an important component of both blended and online courses. This paper examines the varieties of online discussions and the perils, pitfalls and possibilities of this rather new technological tool for enhanced learning. The discussion begins with possible perils and pitfalls inherent in this educational tool and moves to a consideration of the advantages of the varieties o...

Nowadays, there is a big discussion about two different topics: how distance learning and the old fashioned learning can be improved using the new technologies. In both cases, there are many collaborative tools based on the web infrastructure such as e-mail, web discussing groups, virtual campuses or audio and video conferences, that basically give a way of exchanging information among the diff...

This article embarked from the e-government affairs and the collaboration theory, has discussed the meaning of intelligent and collaborative control for E-government system, and proposed the intelligent and collaborative E-government system.

Research on e-learner community building has attracted much attention for its effectiveness in sharing the learning experience and resources among geographically dispersed e-learners. While collaborative filtering proves its success as one of the most efficient methods in finding similar users in e-commerce domain, it does meet special challenges in e-learning areas. This paper incorporates mul...

Emerging technologies cause changes in education. These changes result in new human learning processes that evolve to collaborative e-learning approach, where social and mobile networks take a great relevance. In this paper we introduce SCHOM (SCHOlar Messaging). We have developed this tool for communication and collaborative e-learning in wired and wireless environments. SCHOM, a SaaS (Softwar...

The integration of practice and learning is a key to cultivation of or­ ganizational capability for creating or inheriting intellect. In this paper, firstly we address the critical research issues for collaborative space design to inte­ grate practice and learning. Following the discussion, we have built an ontology which specifies the structure of the collaborative learning, described patterns...