Community and Contribution: Factors Motivating Students to Participate in an Extra-Curricular Online Activity and Implications for Learning

Tony Reeves; Phil Gomm

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 12, No. 3 (2015) pp. 391–409

The human desire to join and participate in communities can be seen as an attempt to satisfy some of our universal human needs. The theory of communities of practice has been widely used to explain how and why humans participate in multiple...