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We have implemented a novel peer-to-peer based environment called Comtella, which allows students to contribute and share class-related resources. This system has been implemented successfully in a fourth year undergraduate course on Ethics and IT. The intermediate results of the ongoing experiment show a significant increase in participation and contribution in the test version in comparison with a previous offering of the class where students contributed class-related resources via their own personal web-sites. Our ongoing and future work focuses on motivating higher levels of participation and getting students involved in the quality control of the contributions aiming at a self-organizing virtual learning community.
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Vassileva, J. (2004). Harnessing P2P Power in the Classroom. In: Lester, J.C., Vicari, R.M., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3220. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30139-4_29
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