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...

This book provides an in-depth, practical perspective on the growing dependence of virtual teams and how to best exploit them. Based on years of direct experience in managing and participating in virtual teams, as well as developing solutions to help virtual teams be more effective, the authors...

This book explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then...

"This book provides exploration of the opportunities, benefits and costs associated with virtual work, addressing several communicative, relational and practical issues associated with virtual work"--Provided by publisher.

"This book focuses on challenges that designers face in creating interfaces for users of various virtual environments, including coverage of various critical issues that have implications for user interface design from a number of different viewpoints"--Provided by publisher.

"This book uses humanistic and social scientific inquiry to explore how humans communicate, behave, and navigate in their new virtual work spaces, providing scholars and practitioners an opportunity to study virtual work from quantitative and qualitative research approaches"--Provided by publisher.

"This book highlights invaluable research covering the design, development, and evaluation of online learning environments, examining the role of technology enhanced learning in this emerging area"--Provided by publisher.

"Using a case study analysis, this book provides a unifying perspective for discussing the viability of collaborative virtual spaces as training programs for insurance brokers, forums to support at-risk university students, simulations of historical places, means to aid autistic children learn...

This book reviews innovations and trends in virtual organizations. Topics include knowledge creation and management, virtual customer networks, e-commerce, and virtual communities, offering analysis of the full spectrum of technologies, applications, practices, and outcomes within this field.

1. Establishing identification in virtual science museums / Billie Jones -- 2. Free-choice learning research and the virtual science center / Kathryn Goldman, Lynn Dierking -- 3. Contextualized virtual science centers / Andreas Zimmerman, Andreas Lorenze, Marcus Specht -- 4. Starting with what...