This page looks at Communities of Practice as Distributed Collaborative Work and asks (a) are CoPs collaborative and (b) can they be distributed? (Selected and reviwed links to papers on CoPs)
As work becomes more knowledge-intensive, multidisciplinary and collaborative, educators must employ Knowledge Management (KM) to improve decision-making and bring about improvement within their organizations.
This paper examines learning among museum staff involved in exhibition development in four European natural history museums. It draws upon a larger body of research undertaken for the Mirror project, a European Commission Framework Programme 5 Information
This paper demonstrates a systematic approach to modelling and designing KBSs in a purely object-oriented fashion through the use of profile mechanism. The profile is constructed using compliant standards of modelling software systems by adopting the XMF
In order to sustain their competitive advantage, knowledge-companies need to harness knowledge and to analyse knowledge sharing mechanisms and learning in the whole organisation.
Review of "WHERE DID THAT COMMUNITY GO? - COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE THAT DISAPPEAR" by Patricia Gongla and Christine R. Rizzuto Chapter 24 in Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice