"Self-Organizing Social Learning Through the Monastery Gates" ( Rose M. Baker & David L. Passmore : The Pennsylvania State University ; 2005 )
"Abstract
An example of an emergent, self-organizing on-line social
learning system is available at the PerlMonks site at
http://perlmonks.org/. Perl is a scripting language
commonly used to as an interface between databases and
web pages. Provided in this paper is a review of principles
of emergent, self-organizing systems from a perspective
of learning systems as well as case study of PerlMonks as
self-organizing eLearning."
"Abstract
An example of an emergent, self-organizing on-line social learning system is available at the PerlMonks site at http://perlmonks.org/. Perl is a scripting language commonly used to as an interface between databases and web pages. Provided in this paper is a review of principles of emergent, self-organizing systems from a perspective of learning systems as well as case study of PerlMonks as self-organizing eLearning."
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