An Online Environment for Academics and Professionals to Locate Collaborators and Refine Ideas

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Title

An Online Environment for Academics and Professionals to Locate Collaborators and Refine Ideas

Subject

e-learning
collaboration
conferences
web technology
social networking
professional networking

Description

Academic and industry conferences have been used for years as a key method for sharing knowledge and ideas among academics and professionals in specific areas of study. Conferences provide a rare opportunity for people to form relationships with colleagues around the world, and not only to exchange ideas within the context of formal presentations, but to get to know one another informally through other conference activities such as dinners and receptions.

While conferences do indeed have tremendous value and contribute substantially to the growth of research in their fields, we have identified some ways that we can use technology to improve the impact of conferences on research and results, to make better use of the time between conferences, and to allow more involvement from people who cannot attend conferences.

In this paper, we describe a community-based Web site for academics and professionals, and to be rolled out first for an international e-learning association.

Creator

Guralnick, David
Levy, Christine

Source

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 2 No. 3 (2008); pp. 28-30
1865-7923

Publisher

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

Date

2008-06-01

Rights

Copyright (c) 2017 David Guralnick, Christine Levy

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Identifier

Citation

David Guralnick and Christine Levy, An Online Environment for Academics and Professionals to Locate Collaborators and Refine Ideas, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2008, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/854

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