This study draws on the observations of five instructional designers who discuss their professional identities, their communities of practice and their roles as agents of social and institutional change.
The state of the open source movement and the activities that arise from it have shifted and continue to shift before me as I write these essays. While these ideas seem to be constantly reshaping, they are no less interesting to me than they were at the b
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are informal structures and not part of formal management line structures. They comprise members who do similar work, employ similar skills and face similar issues or have some other common interest in the work environment.
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 2 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with distributed CoPs
Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”. People are learning together – every individual deals and engage in many different communities of practice. Here people negotiate and
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. Using the evidence from two recent sets of studies, it highlights some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of
This paper presents a taxonomy of facilitation tasks that have to be carried out to support various COP processes that take place during the different stages in a COP’s life-cycle.
This paper discusses existing research and develops a theoretical model of factors that affect knowledge sharing in OLCs. The aim is to increase our understanding of the antecedents to knowledge-sharing in OLCs.
In this study the global Information Systems academic community is viewed as a community of practice in which knowledge is resident but inadequately shared.
L’objectif de cet article est d’apporter une contribution à la compréhension des facteurs clés de succès des systèmes de gestion des connaissances (SGC), à travers une étude qualitative menée auprès de sept grandes entreprises françaises du
Communities of Practice are conceptually positioned as a very important and successful element of corporate Knowledge Management. By utilizing IT platforms they enable a direct connection of knowledge workers and the transfer and reuse of tacit expertise
In this paper, we argue that this approach is flawed and some knowledge simply cannot be captured. A method is needed which recognises that knowledge resides in people: not in machines or documents ...
Links to Chris Kimble's, research (CMC, CSCW, Knowledge Management, Distributed Teams); teaching (MIS, CIS HI2), and administration (Computer Science, Management)
Directing their discussion at a general audience, Hildreth and Kimble present 24 separately authored chapters exploring the application of the concept of "Communities of Practice" to knowledge management in business or commerce organizations.
This paper reports the findings from a longitudinal case study at University of York, UK. The findings from this study suggest that students and tutors in this programme employed different types and exhibited different degree of social presence when commu
Our society has focus on life-long learning, both formal and informal, and this might mean new challenges to the librarians. How do we facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge creation among the users?
Kevin WATSON and Fran STEELE School of Education College of Arts Education and Social Sciences University of Western Sydney AUSTRALIA E-mail: K.Watson@uws.edu.au Received 5 October, 2005 Revised 19 May, 2006
Overview of Position: Chevron Corporation is one of the worlds leading energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, and conducting business in approximately 180 countries, the company is engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas indu
This wiki is a companion piece to a forthcoming book Stewarding Technologies for Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. Smith. The report gives a great deal more context to the information in this wiki, but it is our hope that
Calendaring tool allows communities to keep individual and group schedule of events. They can be stand alone applications, or applications that integrate with individual users' tools such as Outook. (NEED BETTER TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION)
What are they? Groups, Networks and Teams organized around teaching and learning topics. Who can join? Anyone at UBC with an interest in teaching and learning! We welcome undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and all others with a teaching
N. Bissett. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 17 (3):
315--325(июня 2004)Diversity, Social Capital and Knowledge Distribution, Knowledge Risk Management blog post.