Virtual Portfolios for Collaboration in Distributed Web-Based Learning

This paper addresses the problems of collaboration in distributed Web-based learning. It reviews, treats and discusses these problems from the learning theoretical perspective of "communities of practice" as presented by Etienne Wenger (1998), with reference to past and future Web-based designs. The paper suggests the concept and design of virtual portfolio as a pedagogical tool to be implemented in the virtual environment for the enhancement of distributed collaboration in Web-based learning. Includes three figures. (Contains 14 references.) (Author) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Virtual Portfolios for Collaboration in Distributed Web-Based Learning PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY