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Cross-Border eCommerce (CBeC) is now one of the most dynamic and important phenomena in international business, and the cultivation of talents in this area has become a pressing issue. This paper discusses our experiments in which a Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP) with multi-media, multi-layered WeChat groups was established. Results show that this VCoP has been proved both suitable and effective: it solved the problem of multi-location of participants in this programme by setting up a convenient and almost free-of-charge VCoP; the structure of 3-layered WeChat groups has been both efficient and effective, with students concentrating on the specific product and function in which they specialize; and the use of multi-media functions available on the WeChat platform for lecture delivery and discussion has improved the teaching effects and motivated students in learning and practice.
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Wang, Y. et al. (2021). Effective Cultivation of Cross-Border E-Commerce Talents via Virtual Communities of Practice with Multi-media, Multi-layered WeChat Groups. In: Pang, C., et al. Learning Technologies and Systems. SETE ICWL 2020 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66906-5_29
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