... 5Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and 6Canadian Institutes of Health Research; School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, ... 'Community' generally describes groups of people (e.g., a town, a school) connected by a commoninterest and who define their identities by the roles theyplay and the relationships they share in the ... exchanges of information and the develop-ment of innovative ideas within the community. Finally,in the case of a virtual learning community, issues regard-ing privacy, user-friendliness of online...