Web-based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice

Mining Unnoticed Knowledge in Collaboration Support Systems
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KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Community of Practice: refers to the process
of social learning that occurs and shared social and
cultural practices that emerge and evolve when
people who have common goals interact as they
strive towards those goals.
Clustering: clustering is an algorithmic concept
where data points occur in bunches, rather
than evenly spaced over their range. A data set
which tends to bunch only in the middle is said
to possess centrality. Data sets which bunch in
several places do not possess centrality. What
they do possess has not been very much studied,
and there are no infallible methods for locating
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