Asynchronous online discussion environments are important platforms to support learning.
Research suggests, however, threaded forums, one of the most popular asynchronous …

Online learning has become a widespread method for providing education at the graduate
and undergraduate level. Although it is an extension of distance learning, the medium …

In this research we explore aspects of learning, social interaction and community across
online learning, also known as distance learning, in higher education. We measure the …

The purpose of the study was to understand student interaction and learning supported by a
collaboratively social annotation tool—Diigo. The researcher examined through a case …

Today people typically read and annotate printed documents even if they are obtained from
electronic sources like digital libraries If there is a reason for them to share these personal …

Developments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the
future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of …

This article is a study of the themes and issues concerning the annotation of digital contents,
such as textual documents, images, and multimedia documents in general. These digital …

Interest in online education is surging, as dramatized by the success of Khan Academy and
recent Stanford online courses, but the technology for online education is in its infancy …

NB is an in-place collaborative document annotation website targeting students reading
lecture notes and draft textbooks. Serving as a discussion forum in the document margins …

Discussion groups are one of the most important elements of collaborative learning which
utilize recommender systems to improve their performance in several aspects. This type of …