Fundamental Technologies for Education/Learning Support in Network Community

Abstract

Education/learning in network communities involves activities in which the members acquire, share, publish and create knowledge by joining in the communities to communicate with each other. The main topic addressed in this review paper is to classify fundamental technologies for scaffolding and promoting such education/learning activities. The key idea on this classification is to organize the fundamental technologies in each type of network community, with which social capital in the community increases, and with which the sustainability of the education/learning activities could be maximized.