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	Title:	Meaningful access: policy, management and orchestration
	Author:	Ioan Rosca, Val Rosca
	Address:	LICEF, Teleuniversity of Montreal, 100 Sherbrooke West, Montreal H2X 3P2, Canada. ' Amazon Development Centre, Iasi, Sfantu Lazar, nr. 37, Iasi, 700049, Romania
	Journal:	International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication 2008 - Vol. 2, No.3  pp. 247 - 266
	Abstract:	Access management for learning communities requires a unified theory, sustaining the implementation of instructional policies, for 'social networks'. The management method we have reached is based on the integration of content-rich resources in 'operations' that model/control the access of those seeking to learn something by using them, with or without assistance. Activities may be sequenced emergently or planned, using scenarios (or 'functions' – a biological metaphor). The proposed formula offers multiple facilitations: guiding, sequencing, coordination, matching, tracing etc. The gradual concretisation of operational elements (human and machine interprets/executors) can rely on technical, semantic and administrative indexing and on the 'metafunctions' mechanism.
	Keywords:	access management; learning communities; meaningful access; policy management; interfaced operations; orchestrating functions; procedural aggregation; coordination tools; component concretisation rules; evolving scenarios; explanatory cooperation; software engineering; social networks; resource repositories; pedagogical resources.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJAMC.2008.020179
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