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Sociability and usability in online communities: Determining and measuring success
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This paper begins to identify some key determinants of sociability and usability that help to determine their success on the basis of obvious measures and some less obvious measures.Abstract:
Little attention has focused so far on evaluating the success of online communities. This paper begins to identify some key determinants of sociability and usability that help to determine their success. Determinants of sociability include obvious measures such as the number of participants in a community, the number of messages per unit of time, members' satisfaction, and some less obvious measures such as amount of reciprocity, the number of on-topic messages, trustworthiness and several others. Measures of usability include numbers of errors, productivity, user satisfaction and others. The list is not exhaustive but it is intended to provide a starting point for research on this important topic that will lead to develop of metrics. To avoid creating false impressions it is advisable to use several measures and to triangulate with qualitative data, particularly from ethnographic studies.read more
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Evaluating the Use of Groupware Technologies in Support of Collaborative Learning in an ESP Tertiary Education Course
TL;DR: Dedicated learning platforms as well as knowledge management and social networking tools, have become central in supporting collaboration in educational settings, yet sufficient evidence of their in-depth contribution and usability, with regards to ESP, is limited.
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Sociability from the Perspective of Cultural Diversity in Virtual Communities of Practice
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TL;DR: A heuristic to evaluate how sociability is treated in VCops is proposed, with emphasis on cultural diversity aspects, and the proposed heuristic was applied in the evaluation of some VCoPs.
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