Implementing an online learning community for a geography digital library.

• Main Author: Chew, Weng Leong.
• Other Authors: Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Library and information science::Knowledge management; DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Digital libraries and information portals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/1913
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation aims to implement an online learning community on GeogDL, a Web-based geography digital library. A prototype of online chat and discussion forum was developed for this project using object-oriented methodology. A small-scale evaluation was conducted to examine the usability of the...