Small worlds: normative behavior in virtual communities and feminist bookselling
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Toward an understanding of the motivation Open Source Software developers
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
Best practices and future visions for search user interfaces
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Encouraging participation in virtual communities
Communications of the ACM - Spam and the ongoing battle for the inbox
An empirical analysis of open source software developers' motivations and continuance intentions
Information and Management
Working for Free? Motivations for Participating in Open-Source Projects
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Knowledge sharing in online environments: A qualitative case study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Facts or friends?: distinguishing informational and conversational questions in social Q&A sites
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
What's mine is mine: territoriality in collaborative authoring
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The role of trust belief and its antecedents in a community-driven knowledge environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects
Journal of Management Information Systems
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
The use of categorization information in language models for question retrieval
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Factors affecting shapers of organizational wikis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Judging the quality and credibility of information in Internet discussion forums
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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This research is about participants who use open-source software (OSS) discussion forums for learning. Learning in online communities of education as well as non-education-related online communities has been studied under the lens of social learning theory and situated learning for a long time. In this research, we draw parallels among these two types of communities and explore what can be learned from open-source software communities about online learning. Thematic network analysis was used to code the qualitative data from the open-ended questions in the survey and the interviews. The results indicate that learning in online open-source software communities encompasses much more than just learning about the software being discussed. 283 Open-source forum participants were surveyed, and 21 were interviewed to develop an understanding of the challenges to learning in these communities as well as to identify the practices that promote learning. Identifying these practices helps to understand online learning and enables the integration of best practices into online education.