The Collaborative Enotebook: A Collaborative Learning And Knowledge Management Testbed

We envision an eNotebook, a software system that enables students and instructors to manage their learning content across the software engineering curriculum, and to organize the content in multiple ways. We also envision this as a Collaborative eNotebook, which students and instructors use as they collaborate to create, share, and add to this content, and collaborate as they create, share, and add to ways to organize the content. This paper describes the features of a Collaborative eNotebook; it describes a design that integrates existing technologies from digital libraries, advanced search and retrieval, peer-to-peer file sharing, and distributed user identity authentication and access authorization; and it concludes with a description of experiments to assess the effectiveness of the Collaborative eNotebook in knowledge management and learning activities of an introduction to software engineering course.