Sousa, SóniaLamas, DavidDias, Paulo2016-03-172016-03-172011-07978-84-615-0441-1http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/5020Comunicação apresentada na 3ª Conferência Internacional "Education and New Learning Technologies", realizada em Barcelona, de 4-6 Julho de 2011Major contributions of the work are towards a comprehensive understanding of the influence of trust in an e-learning context. This paper aims to eliciting potential effects of trust in efforts in communicate, share and interact online leaning contexts. It intends first to provide a contextualization on this research rationale and background that lead to a preliminary exploratory model of model of trust which describes insights on users predisposition to interact online and their trust beliefs. Ending by setting a sort of considerations on the potential of some trust components in influencing people's willingness to interact, be creative and constructing their knowledge in virtual spaces.engElearningLearning strategyLearning preferencesTrustSocial networkingOnline communityconference object