Communities of Practice. Using the Open Web as a Collaborative Learning Platform

Since May 2007 the authors of this paper have explored the use of social networks in three different educational contexts and evaluated the relative merits and challenges of social networking within the context of higher education professional development programmes (Montpellier 3 University in France and University of Hull in Great Britain). This paper compares and contrast the following three case studies and through this analysis will explore the process of setting up the networks and the resulting online interaction

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