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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Democratic Group Production and e-Learning have overlapping but not identical design and use profiles. We suggest that democratically organized CSCW systems provide an ideal platform for organizing and encouraging group interactions in e-Learning and other democratic group production situations where physical meetings are not feasible. Few attempts at democratic CSCW systems have been made, we argue, largely because the necessary development resources are concentrated in large hierarchical organizations which have little apparent use for such systems. The CoPE CSCW system does seem to provide a promising platform for extension to e-Learning and other characteristically similar environments, and there is an ongoing effort to do this.
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Thaw, D., Feldman, J., Li, J., Caballe, S. (2009). Communities of Practice Environment (CoPE): Democratic CSCW for Group Production and E-Learning. In: Daradoumis, T., Caballé, S., Marquès, J.M., Xhafa, F. (eds) Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04001-6_5
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