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Numerous groupware products are now in use in many commercial environments. These systems typically integrate a number of tools for communication, workflow, database-sharing, contact management, and group scheduling, and operate across a variety of environments. This chapter looks at the use of groupware in organisations, and looks at a range of groupware which supports asynchronous collaboration. It identifies three categories of asynchronous collaboration in an academic environment: teaching; research; and support for teaching and research. It then looks at how the groupware tools could be used to support asynchronous collaboration in academia.
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Hazemi, R., Hailes, S., Wilbur, S. (1998). Supporting Asynchronous Collaboration in Academia. In: Hazemi, R., Hailes, S., Wilbur, S. (eds) The Digital University. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0625-8_14
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