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Beyond the Learning Process and toward the Knowledge Creation Process: Linking Learning and Knowledge in the Supportive Learning Culture
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Yoon, Seung Won; Song, Ji Hoon; Lim, Doo Hun – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This integrative literature review synthesizes the concepts and process of organizational knowledge creation with theories of individual learning. The knowledge conversion concept (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka, Toyama, & Byosiere, 2001) is used as the basis of the organizational knowledge creation process, while major learning theories relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Processes
The Backyard Human Performance Technologist: Applying the Development Research Methodology to Develop and Validate a New Instructional Design Framework
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Brock, Timothy R. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Development research methodology (DRM) has been recommended as a viable research approach to expand the practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice literature that human performance technology (HPT) practitioners can integrate into the day-to-day work flow they already use to develop instructional products. However, little has been written about how it…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Performance Technology, Program Development
An Investigation of Knowledge-Building Activities in an Online Community of Practice at Subaru of America
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Land, Susan M.; Draper, Darryl C.; Ma, Ziyan; Hsieh, Hsiu-Wei; Smith, Brian K.; Jordan, Robert – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Current approaches to workplace learning emphasize designing communities of practice that are intended to support both formal and informal knowledge acquisition. This article presents the design and research of a knowledge-based community of practice for Subaru, based on principles outlined by Scardamalia (2002) and Zhang, Scardamalia, Lamon,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Integrated Learning Systems
Confirmative Evaluation of Training Outcomes
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Giberson, Tomas R.; Tracey, Monica W.; Harris, Marguerite T. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
This article explores the use of an evaluation model of learning and development utilizing formative, summative, and confirmative steps, along with a framework for developing evaluation tools aligned with organizational change goals. A case study is presented in which formative, summative, and confirmative evaluations were used to assess materials…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Organizational Change, Organizational Development, Program Effectiveness