In internet culture, lurkers are a special group of website users who regularly login to online
communities but seldom post. This study aims to provide an overall understanding of lurkers …

The increasingly prevalent use of Internet in schools and homes has resulted in
asynchronous online discussion becoming an increasingly common means to facilitate …

Prior studies on knowledge-sharing motivations mostly concentrate on discussing motivation
in terms of level or amount, and thus, discussions regarding the quality of motivations, in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend existing engagement research in two
directions: first, it operationalizes the dynamic nature of the engagement process within a …

The purpose of this article is to examine the communication behaviors of online leaders, or
those who influence other members of online communities in triggering message replies …

Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of
discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become …

The use of educational games in learning environments is an increasingly relevant trend.
The motivational and immersive traits of game-based learning have been deeply studied in …

Context: Programming courses are compulsory for most engineering degrees, but students'
performance on these courses is often not as good as expected. Programming is difficult for …

Badges have garnered great interest among scholars of digital media and learning. In
addition, widespread initiatives such as Mozilla's Open Badge Framework expand the …

Life-long learning is a key issue for our knowledge society. With social software systems
new heterogeneous kinds of technology enhanced informal learning are now available to …