This book includes the most encompassing research of the concepts and realities involved in the field of virtual communities and technologies. A ground-breaking, multi-volume compendium of 167 chapters from a global pool of more than 350 experts, it presents an in-depth analysis of the...

1. In love and war / Esyin Chew, David Turner, Norah Jones -- 2. Hybridizing online learning with external interactivity / Donna Morrow, Richard Bagnall -- 3. Using metanotation as a tool for describing learning systems / Philip Barker -- 4. A tabular approach to outcome-based course planning...