Models of Innovative Knowledge Communities and Three Metaphors of Learning

2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Paavola ◽  
Lasse Lipponen ◽  
Kai Hakkarainen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Expansive Learning ◽  
Intelligent Activity

The authors analyze and compare three models of innovative knowledge communities: Nonaka and Takeuchi’s model of knowledge-creation, Engeström’s model of expansive learning, and Bereiter’s model of knowledge building. Despite basic differences, these models have pertinent features in common: Most fundamentally, they emphasize dynamic processes for transforming prevailing knowledge and practices. Beyond characterizing learning as knowledge acquisition (the acquisition metaphor) and as participation in a social community (the participation metaphor), the authors of this article distinguish a third aspect: learning (and intelligent activity in general) as knowledge creation (the knowledge-creation metaphor). This approach focuses on investigating mediated processes of knowledge creation that have become especially important in a knowledge society.

scholarly journals A Correlation Study between Social Capital and Knowledge Management with Emphasis on the Human Capital - The Case Study: Payame Noor University of Hormozgan (Bandarabbas)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Mansooreh Dastranj
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Correlation Study ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge

<p>Universities because of the importance and position they play in the every countries’ socio-economic development, require attention to personnel social capital at the university, because the social capital, makes effective knowledge management possible.</p><p>With respect to the importance of social and human capital and knowledge management, the present study was done to explore the relationship between social capital and knowledge management with emphasis on the human capital.<strong> </strong></p><p>This research is survey- descriptive of correlation type and the required data were collected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>

BookTubers as a Networked Knowledge Community

2013 ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Sorensen ◽  
Andrew Mara
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Young Adult Fiction ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Knowledge Community ◽  
Definable Set ◽  
The Relationship

In order to understand the relationship between Networked Knowledge Communities (NKCs) and the Networked Knowledge Society (NKS), the chapter authors conduct a genre analysis of a self-titled New Media genre called BookTube. BookTube is a NKC made up of YouTube content creators who use this particular social media channel to celebrate and discuss books, especially young-adult fiction. By examining how BookTube adheres to discourse community features—shared rules, genres, hierarchies, and values—the contours of this particular NKC become clearer. Stylistic patterns, the roles of authors, and author cultural capital all get negotiated within a discernible and definable set of practices that relate participants to other NKCs and the broader NKS. Furthermore, by relating these discourse features to other latent educational possibilities of the NKS, the authors explore how BookTube might be usefully implemented to model NKC practices in more traditional f2f educational settings.

The Rise of Telcos and Africa's Knowledge Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 112-133
Author(s):  
Lloyd G. Adu Amoah
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
The Future

The growing penetration of mobile telephony in Africa reflects arguably the continent's increasing embeddedness into the concourses of the rapidly evolving global high technology environment. The mobile telephony sphere in Africa therefore holds the greatest potential for connecting people, government, business, and the third sector in the ways contemplated by the idea of societies in which knowledge creation, manipulation, storage, and transmission is central for growth and development. It should be clear then that the sophistication of mobile telephony policy takes on a peculiar salience for Africa's high technological leap in the coming decades. This chapter argues that the recent emergence of telecommunication chambers in African countries must be seen as a key loop in crafting mobile telephony policies that respond deftly to current developmental challenges and positions Africa for the future. Focusing on existing African telchambs, the chapter surveys their emergence, analyzes the empirics of their interface with policymakers, and provides directions for the future.

scholarly journals Analytics for Knowledge Creation: Towards Epistemic Agency and Design-Mode Thinking

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bodong Chen ◽  
Jianwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Static State ◽  
Epistemic Agency ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
High Level

Innovation and knowledge creation call for high-level epistemic agency and design-mode thinking, two competencies beyond the traditional scopes of schooling. In this paper, we discuss the need for learning analytics to support these two competencies, and more broadly, the demand for education for innovation. We ground these arguments on a distinctive Knowledge Building pedagogy that treats education as a knowledge-creation enterprise. By critiquing current learning analytics for their focus on static-state knowledge and skills, we argue for agency-driven, choice-based analytics more attuned to higher order competencies in innovation. We further describe ongoing learning analytics initiatives that attend to these elements of design. Prospects and challenges are discussed, as well as broader issues regarding analytics for higher order competencies.

scholarly journals A CONSTRUCTIVIST METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION AND THE ASSESSMENT OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE-BUILDING

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Campos
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Higher Order Learning

This article presents a discourse analysis method designed to study networked cognitive communication processes in knowledge communities, such as conceptual change, higher order learning and knowledge building. The method is grounded on genetic epistemology and integrates constructivist and socioconstructivist theoretical concepts. The sentence (understood as judgment) is chosen as the unit of analysis, and the application of the method is further explained. In addition, a study of transcripts in an asynchronous networked community of nurses illustrates the method and demonstrates how conceptual change, collaborative learning and knowledge building can be identified. Advantages and limitations of the method are also discussed.

scholarly journals Beyond Browsing and Reading: The Open Work of Digital Scholarly Editions

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Saklofske ◽  
Jake Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Knowledge Communities ◽  
Capture Process ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Open Work ◽  
Knowledge Building Communities ◽  
Digital Scholarly Editions

INKE’s Modelling and Prototyping group is currently motivated by the following research questions:  How do we model and enable context within the electronic scholarly edition?   And how do we engage knowledge-building communities and capture process, dialogue and connections in and around the electronic scholarly edition?  NewRadial is a prototype scholarly edition environment developed to address such queries.  It argues for the unification of primary texts, secondary scholarship and related knowledge communities, and re-presents the digital scholarly edition as a social edition, an open work and shared space where users collaboratively explore, sort, group, annotate and contribute to secondary scholarship creation.

scholarly journals Understanding how students perceive the role of ideas for their knowledge work in a knowledge-building environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huang-Yao Hong ◽  
Chieh-Hsin Chiu
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Real World ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
Building Environment

This study explored how students viewed the role of ideas for knowledge work and how such view was related to their inquiry activities. Data mainly came from students’ online interaction logs, group discussion and inquiry, and a survey concerning the role of ideas for knowledge work. The findings suggest that knowledge building was conducive to developing among students a more informed view of ideas that sees ideas as improvable, real-world objects for collaborative and creative knowledge work, rather than merely as abstract thoughts for achieving an individual’s own knowledge acquisition. Moreover, it was found that how a group views the role of ideas was associated with how they improve the quality of the ideas during their group inquiry.

scholarly journals Role of Nature in Creation of Iranian Myths

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Abolghasem Dadvar ◽  
Roya Rouzbahani
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Transmission ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
The Difference

<p>Nature has always been an important element of myths and religions and had a different standing within ideologies. Because various factors have been involved in creation of myths, this research aims to clarify the role of nature in creation of Iranian myths. Generally, the structure of Iranian myth is a kind of belief in duality of nature, in human and in the conflict forces existing in the world which best are expressed in the continued conflict between good and evil forces. Iran is a country with varied natural geography and can be called the land of great conflicts, so this paper aims to investigate the role of nature in the creation of Iranian myths and determine the effective natural and mythological forces. Data gathered by the documentary method and the research was performed by a descriptive, adaptive and analysis method. According to the results, this research concludes that natural elements play a significant role in the Iranian myth.</p><p>llected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province.</p><p> </p><p>In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.</p>

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