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
Design methods in information systems frequently create software descriptions using formal languages. Nonetheless, most software designers prefer to describe software using natural languages ...
Although Communities of Practice have become a core concept in understanding how knowledge is managed within organizations, there have been few studies of the praxis of formation of Communities of Practice. In this article, we report on a Grounded Theory study of the members of a previously identified Community of Practice within the UK Higher Education Academy Psychology Network. In addition to providing data on the functioning of the community, the study also revealed a hitherto unrecognized form of community that exhibits all of the characteristics of CoPs yet has only a transient existence that seems to nucleate around an existing core community. Drawing on the metaphor of quantum behaviour, we termed these communities Quantum Communities of Practice. We describe a theory to explain this phenomenon that is grounded in the data from the study. We conclude by discussing the value and validity of our findings and methodology and indicating the next steps we will take in our research.
NGOs need to tackle the problems of effective communication that arise from their local-global nature. This paper examines Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in order to promote Communities of Practice in both local and
Design methods in information systems frequently create software descriptions using formal languages. Nonetheless, most software designers prefer to describe software using natural languages ...
This paper presents a critical review of some of the claims made for CoPs. It will address questions such as "Are CoPs really suitable for use in a business setting?" and "Can a CoP ever be truly virtual?"
This is main web page for Computers In Society course (CIS) at the University of York. This page provides links to material for the topics in the course.
Virtual Teams are seen as project or task focused groups. Team membership may be relatively stable (e.g. in an established sales team) or change on a regular basis (e.g. in project teams). Members may be drawn from the same organization or from several di
Systemic reform often involves partnerships between multiple communities of practice (CoP). In order to understand the strengths and challenges of a partnership, it is necessary to examine the objectives and practices of the constituent communities and th
M. Abdullah, I. Benest, R. Paige, and C. Kimble. Proc. 26th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Modelling (ER'07), Auckland, New Zealand, (2007)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceedings of IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004), page 49 - 55. Budapest, Hungary, IEEE Computer Society, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Knowledge Management, page 15 - 25. Dublin, Ireland, MCIL, (2002)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3599: MDAFA 2003/2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, September 2005.(2005)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Knowledge Management, page 5 - 18. Paris, France, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Decision Support (ICKEDS) 2004, page 489 - 496. Porto, Portugal, Instituto Politécnico, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. Proceedings of Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications (MDAFA 2004), page 202 - 216. Linköping University, Sweden, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. Model-Driven Architecture: Revised and Selected Papers from European MDA Workshops MDAFA 2003 and MDAFA 2004, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, R. Paige, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), page 1054 - 1059. Singapore, IEEE Computer Society, (2004)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), 204, page 70 - 77. Athens, Greece, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, (2006)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2006), Paphos, Cyprus, ICEIS, (2006)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation (CIMCA 2005), 2, page 952 - 957. Vienna, Austria, IEEE Computer Society, (2005)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, I. Benest, C. Kimble, and A. Evans. Proceedings of the ACM 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems (ICICIS 2005), page 299 - 306. Cairo, Egypt, ACM Press, (2005)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, C. Kimble, and I. Benest. 5th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2007), page 871 - 878. Busan, Korea, IEEE Computer Society, (2007)
M. Abdullah, R. Paige, C. Thompson, I. Benest, and C. Kimble. Proceeding of the 2nd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI2005), page 23 - 33. Beijing, China, Springer-Verlag, (2005)
M. Abdullah, I. Benest, A. Evans, and C. Kimble. ISDA 2004) IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Application, page 26--28. (2004)