This paper introduces a new approach to semantic wikis. In this approach users coming from different social networks can be merged into a common space to enable collaboration. This approach makes use of the user’s identity representation and keeping track of the user’s interests according to the type of annotations encountered in the content they add.

Using data from the ‘Youth in India: Situation and Needs’ survey, this paper provides perhaps the first estimates of inequality of opportunity in schooling outcomes for males and females separately for India. The inequality of educational opportunity in completion of primary (and secondary) schooling among females is more than twice (and nearly twice) than that among males. Further, among femal...

The system approach to management of knowledge in region is presented. The main principles of more effective control of knowledge networks is proposed. The effective way to the interactions between learning institutes and the industrial organisations was considered.

In this paper we provide a nonparametric treatment of identification in models with social spillovers. We consider a setting with ‘high’ and ‘low’ type individuals. Individual outcomes depend upon the fraction of high types in one’s group. We refer to this dependence as a social spillover or peer group effect. We define estimands measuring local and global spillover strength as well as the outc...

Using insights from the resource-based view, social capital, and network theories, the authors develop a model of how family social capital, as well as an entrepreneur’s knowledge capital and external social capital, influences the venture creation process. The model is tested on a sample of 85 nascent Hispanic entrepreneurs. Results indicate that family social capital, measured as family suppo...

Fei Gao is an assistant professor in Learning Design at Bowling Green State University. Her research focuses on designing technology-enhanced learning environments and assessing the effectiveness of these environments. Tian Luo is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Studies at Ohio University. Her research interests center on using social media and social technologies to facilit...

This paper examines the different characteristics of tacit knowledge and develops an integrated framework for transferring tacit knowledge effectively. The appropriateness and relevance of knowledge management (KM) mechanisms and technologies for varied degrees of tacitness is discussed. The theoretical foundations for the framework are based on media richness theory and social cognitive theory.

Our research is part of an ongoing project to provide tools to support the individual learning needs of lifelong professional learners. In the advanced learning technology research community there is an increasing interest in personalizing learning technology according to the evolving knowledge needs of the learner and the changing knowledge within their profession. In this paper we propose an ...

The major purpose of this discussion is to demonstrate that the knowledge base has suffered as a result of insufficient cross-fertilization of social-psychological and life course/aging perspectives. The central focus of the article is identification of research issues of interest to life course and aging scholars that would be enriched by increased attention to social-psychological principles ...

Using three large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the present paper examines inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984–1997, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased by approximately 70 percent, the participation rates for both men and women went up among all age groups, and the average number of years of schooling inc...