It is necessary for online teaching designers and developers to understand the roles played by open source products in developing and supporting an online learning system. This book covers strategies for using and evaluating open source products for online teaching and learning systems. By going...

A great deal of production and consumption behavior takes place in the context of social organizations that seem to fall outside of the traditional paradigm of profit/utility maximization. These organizations are voluntary in nature and rely on contributions from members to achieve their...