<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 November 2013 11:07, Vear, Gary D <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:vear.gary.d@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">vear.gary.d@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">if we accept the textbook classification of online communities.</blockquote>

</div><br>Do we? If you are referring specifically to the Potts textbook&#39;s classification, remember that no textbook is gospel.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The study design says in U3O1 KK 1, &quot;types and purposes of online communities including social, work-based, project/interest-based that<div class="gmail_extra">

support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity.&quot;</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is actually ambiguous. Does it it mean ...</div><div class="gmail_extra">

<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">&quot;types and purposes of online communities including </div><div class="gmail_extra">(i) social, </div><div class="gmail_extra">(ii) work-based, </div><div class="gmail_extra">(iii) project/interest-based that support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity.&quot;</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Or does it mean...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">&quot;types and purposes of online communities including </div><div class="gmail_extra">(i) social, </div>

<div class="gmail_extra">(ii) work-based, </div><div class="gmail_extra">(iii) project/interest-based </div><div class="gmail_extra">that <b>(all)</b> support the purposes of collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity.&quot;<br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I read it the second way. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Did you read it the first way?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra">If you read it the first way, it implies that <b>only</b> a project/interest-based community supports collaboration, knowledge sharing and collective identity!</div><div class="gmail_extra">

Neither the social nor work-based communities have need of these things. That does not make a lot of sense to me.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps Paula can clarify the interpretation of the KK.</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div dir="ltr">--<div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>

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