Supporting the Interconnection of Communities of Practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Élise Lavoué ◽  
Sébastien George
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
General Model ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Target Platform ◽  
The Web

In this paper, a general model for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice (ICP) is proposed. This model creates links between local Communities of Practice (CoPs) and global Communities of Practice on the Web. To hit the target platform specifications to support an ICP are first of all proposed, soon after the TE-Cap 2 (Tutoring Experience Capitalisation) platform for an ICP of tutors is made up to support people working on it. This platform allows the capitalisation of tutors’ contextualised knowledge by making it easily retrievable from all the tutors in their daily practice. At last a descriptive investigation over a four-month period and forty-two users registered on the platform is conducted. Results presented in this paper concern the usability of the platform and the relevance of the model with regard to tutors’ needs.

Supporting the Interconnection of Communities of Practice

2012 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Élise Lavoué ◽  
Sébastien George
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
General Model ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Target Platform ◽  
The Web

In this paper, a general model for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice (ICP) is proposed. This model creates links between local Communities of Practice (CoPs) and global Communities of Practice on the Web. To hit the target platform specifications to support an ICP are first of all proposed, soon after the TE-Cap 2 (Tutoring Experience Capitalisation) platform for an ICP of tutors is made up to support people working on it. This platform allows the capitalisation of tutors’ contextualised knowledge by making it easily retrievable from all the tutors in their daily practice. At last a descriptive investigation over a four-month period and forty-two users registered on the platform is conducted. Results presented in this paper concern the usability of the platform and the relevance of the model with regard to tutors’ needs.

A Knowledge Management Tool for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice

2013 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Élise Lavoué ◽  
Sébastien George ◽  
Patrick Prévôt
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Geographically Distributed

In their daily practice, practitioners belong to local communities of practice (CoPs) within their organisation. This knowledge is rarely capitalised upon because discussions are mainly verbal. Practitioners can also belong to general CoPs online. Within these general CoPs, discussions are rarely linked to the context in which they appeared, since the members are from different companies or institutions. This paper (1) connects these two levels of CoPs by contacting practitioners belonging to CoPs centred on the same general activity but who are geographically distributed and (2) capitalises on the produced knowledge by contextualising, allowing it to be accessible and reusable by all the members. The authors detail the main results of the research: (1) a model of the interconnection of CoPs (ICP) to support knowledge sharing and dissemination; and (2) a specific knowledge management tool for the ICP knowledge base. The authors apply the model and platform to university tutors by: (1) developing a use case, which links the model and the TE-Cap 2 platform and highlights the new possibilities offered by the knowledge management tool; and (2) conducting a descriptive investigation lasting for five months.

A Knowledge Management Tool for the Interconnection of Communities of Practice

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Élise Lavoué ◽  
Sébastien George ◽  
Patrick Prévôt
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Use Case ◽  
General Activity ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Geographically Distributed

In their daily practice, practitioners belong to local communities of practice (CoPs) within their organisation. This knowledge is rarely capitalised upon because discussions are mainly verbal. Practitioners can also belong to general CoPs online. Within these general CoPs, discussions are rarely linked to the context in which they appeared, since the members are from different companies or institutions. This paper (1) connects these two levels of CoPs by contacting practitioners belonging to CoPs centred on the same general activity but who are geographically distributed and (2) capitalises on the produced knowledge by contextualising, allowing it to be accessible and reusable by all the members. The authors detail the main results of the research: (1) a model of the interconnection of CoPs (ICP) to support knowledge sharing and dissemination; and (2) a specific knowledge management tool for the ICP knowledge base. The authors apply the model and platform to university tutors by: (1) developing a use case, which links the model and the TE-Cap 2 platform and highlights the new possibilities offered by the knowledge management tool; and (2) conducting a descriptive investigation lasting for five months.

scholarly journals Changes in Teacher Training within the TPACK Model Framework: A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Rodríguez Moreno ◽  
Miriam Agreda Montoro ◽  
Ana Ortiz Colón
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Model Framework ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The Web

The TPACK model represents a high-impact advance in teacher training regarding their technological, pedagogical and content knowledge. This research presents an analysis of several publications in international databases that address the matter of the TPACK model. Accordingly, a review of the scientific literature applying the documentation as a systematization method was performed. The present study analyses 37 contributions, published between 2014 and 2017, indexed in the Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus databases, with TPACK and TPCK as the applied descriptors. Thus, the documentary analysis was based on four different criteria: public, topic, main results, and methodological design. Results show that all the reviewed publications are mainly focused on studies of basic and higher education where case studies, quantitative empirical studies, and mixed studies are predominant. Consequently, regarding the studies analyzed, there is a lack of longitudinal studies showing the teachers’ actions when applying TPACK in their daily practice.

scholarly journals Drug pollution and pharmacotherapy in psychiatry: A “platypus” in the room

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Unax Lertxundi ◽  
Rafael Hernández ◽  
Juan Medrano ◽  
Gorka Orive
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
New Era ◽  
Pharmaceuticals In The Environment ◽  
The Web ◽  
Neuroendocrine Systems

Abstract Preoccupation about potential deleterious effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment is growing fast. Psychiatric pharmaceuticals have received particular attention because of their increasing use and their potential impacts on many living beings due to their effects on phylogenetically highly conserved neuroendocrine systems. Recent studies that have shown that many pharmaceuticals (including psychotropics) bioaccumulate through the web food have raised this concern into new heights. As professionals working in the field of psychiatry and academia, we believe we are about to enter a new era with regard to pharmacotherapy. We estimate drug pollution will have a major impact on our daily practice in a way we are just starting to imagine. So far, this problem has largely been ignored by healthcare professionals, who are the ones prescribing and dispensing pharmaceuticals. We are convinced that increasing awareness among these professionals will be a key element to effectively fight against drug pollution.

Smart Technologies, E-Participation, and the ‘Right to the Territory'

2020 ◽  
pp. 194-214
Author(s):  
Teresa Graziano
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

The chapter is finalized to scrutinize the capacity of netizens' e-participation and/or online activism to effectively influence territorial governance, by analyzing the role and the relevance of the Web in shaping new and variegated forms of “social movements” both in urban and in rural/marginal contexts trough a comparative analysis of four case studies in Italy. The main aim is to critically rethink - conceptually and politically - the intersection among sustainability, smart technologies, local communities, and the “right to the territory”, to provide new theoretical insights about bottom-up and “participative” concepts of smartness.

Hispanic LEP, MOOCs, and Meetups

2016 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Ramón Talavera-Franco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Limited English Proficient ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
School Segregation

The 21st Century demands the transformation of education into a more collaborative system. School stakeholders should strengthen the sharing of educational resources to make them more attainable for students. Hispanic LEP Meetups as MOOC communities of practice hubs explores the challenges of one of the minority groups living in the United States that has been affected by school segregation practices: the Hispanic Limited English Proficient (HLEP) community—and proposes an alternative for them to continue their education by using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and by taking advantage of meetups to develop local communities of practice.

scholarly journals Rhizomatic Learning Explained

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexios Brailas
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Learning Organizations ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Connected Learning ◽  
Emergent Phenomenon ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

A plethora of terms have been used to describe a holistic, systemic apprehension of learning: communities of practice, learning organizations, rhizomatic learning, connected learning, learning networks, ecologies of learning. A common dominator in all these terms, is a conceptualization of learning as an emergent phenomenon, as the side effect of the active participation and engagement in a complex system of meaningful synergies. This is a perspective that locates learning not in the head of an individual, but in the web of relationships between that person and the world.

scholarly journals Semantics Ontologies and Information Systems in Education: Concerns and Proposals

10.28945/2975 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Cartelli
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Semantic Search ◽  
Scientific Paradigms ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Semantic Search Engine ◽  
The Web

The author describes his experience with students interacting with some websites he made for didactics and research and how this led him to an appreciation for the need for better searching tools and strategies for education. The students’ difficulties emerging from the above observations were a special case of the more general problem evidenced from people while searching information on the web. Semantic web is then discussed as a way to help people overcome their difficulties in using the web to gain knowledge. The paper describes some models for knowledge construction and analyzes them in terms of their suitability as instruments for the introduction of semantics on the web. The paper then provides evidence regarding some limits for the systematic use of semantic search engine and ontology domain systems in everyday teaching and knowledge construction. Finally, the paper reports and explains a hypothesis of an information system for building communities of practice and letting them work on the construction of domain ontology. The paper concludes that this construct is well adapted to the model for knowledge construction firstly hypothesized, and can give good results in teaching-learning planning and carrying out and in helping scientists and scholars to analyze scientific paradigms and to find new trends for research.

Technology Is Something to Make the World a Better Place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim O’Reilly ◽  
Adolfo Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Web

In this dialogue, Tim O’Reilly begins by explaining why change is natural and good and how we have to be open to the future. Later he discusses how the logic that makes things work is related to science and not to a particular set of beliefs; to understanding what is efficient and why within this logic there is a hierarchy that is made up of a set of values. He goes on to explain how the Web 2.0 applications he formulated— for example, the social networks—use network effects by harnessing collective intelligence in such a way that the more people there are who use them, the better they become. After this, he describes how his analysis of the paradigm shift in open code is equivalent to that expressed by Thomas Kuhn in his work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. Later on, O’Reilly reflects on the different possible kinds of Internet of the future before moving on to explain why the most innovative people go beyond the limits of “canonical knowledge” in their daily practice, and the way in which their artistic transgressions or discoveries make them part of the new canon.

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