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Vol.3, No.4, Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)

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As Editors-in-Chief of Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL), we are very pleased to announce the release of this issue. Please see below for a detailed description of the contents.

By 25^th Dec 2011, 86 articles have been published at the KM&EL Journal, with 83,021 full-text downloads.

A FREE copy of this Issue can be downloaded at

Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)

http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication

Laboratory for Knowledge Management & E-Learning, The University of Hong Kong

http://kmel-lab.org/website/index.html

Maggie M. Wang and Stephen J.H. Yang

Editors-in-Chief of KM&EL

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The contents of the this issue

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Special Issue on “Editorial: Creating, Supporting, Sustaining and Evaluating Virtual Learning Communities”

Editorial: Creating, Supporting, Sustaining and Evaluating Virtual Learning Communities

By Xun Ge

An Investigation of the Development of a Reflective Virtual Learning Community in an Ill-Structured Domain of Instructional Design

By Victor Law, Xun Ge, Deniz Eseryel

Stimulating Critical Thinking in a Virtual Learning Community with Instructor Moderations and Peer Reviews

By Ke Zhang, Sacip Toker

Supporting Teacher Reflection through Online Discussion

By Jiening Ruan, Priscilla L. Griffith

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study

By Jenny S. Wakefield, Scott J. Warren, Metta Alsobrook

Microblogging for Strengthening a Virtual Learning Community in an Online Course

By Yu-Chang Hsu, Yu-Hui Ching

A Logical Approach to Supporting Professional Learning Communities

By Laurie F. Ruberg, Meri Cummings, Debra C. B. Piecka, Chris Ruckman, Ralph Seward

Six Years of Lessons Learned in Monitoring and Evaluating Online Discussion Forums

By Megan Avila, Kavitha Nallathambi, Catherine Richey, Lisa Mwaikambo

How to Leverage Virtual Learning Communities for Teaching Agile Communication Skills? The eGroups Case at the University of Muenster in Germany and Massey University in New Zealand

By Christina vom Brocke

Creating a Virtual Learning Community with Hub Architecture: CLEERhub as a Case Study of User Adoption

By Qaiser H. Malik, Nataliia Perova, Thomas J. Hacker, Ruth A. Streveler, Alejandra J. Magana, Patrick L. Vogt, Ann M. Bessenbacher

Developing a Measure of Virtual Community Citizenship Behavior

By Luman Yong, Daniel Sachau, Andrea Lassiter

Designing Functional Virtual Learning Communities Using the Bola Ola Method

By Bolanle A. Olaniran

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Call for Papers:

Special Issue on “Supporting, Managing, & Sustaining Creativity and Cognition through Technology”

Guest Editors

Assoc. Professor Chien-Sing Lee

Professor Jie-Chi Yang

Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology,

National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Associate Editors:

Jimmy Secretan, Ad Summos, Inc., USA

Jie Qi, MIT Media Lab, USA

Cristina Sylla, engageLab, University of Minho, Portugal  

Natalie Freed, MIT Media Lab, USA  

Pedro Branco, engageLab, University of Minho, Portugal

http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/announcement

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Editors-in-Chief

Maggie M. Wang (magwang@hku.hk)

Stephen J.H. Yang (jhyang@csie.ncu.edu.tw)

Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL)

http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication