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Blankenship, Selena S.; Ruona, Wendy E. A. – Online Submission, 2008
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study that explored knowledge sharing among members of a community of practice (CoP) in a large, urban high school. Findings suggest that social relationships, informal channels, community culture, levels of trust, and spatial factors influence knowledge sharing, and that CoPs have the potential to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, School Culture, Educational Environment
Downing, Dick; Lord, Pippa; Jones, Megan; Martin, Kerry; Springate, Iain – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
Creative Partnerships (CP) commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research to research the sharing of practice generated through CP within and between schools locally. Based on 93 interviews with teachers and CP staff, the research explored the relationship between the dissemination of the work of CP and the more informal means by…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
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Cohen, Sandra; Kaimenakis, Nikolaos – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: In recent years a significant number of intellectual capital (IC) metrics has been developed and applied in many organizations. However, there is still a strong need to specify the relations among the different categories of intellectual assets that exist in the context of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME), and to determine the way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Human Capital, Intellectual Property
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Herrmann, Thomas; Loser, Kai-Uwe; Jahnke, Isa – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to show that for the successful development of socio-technical systems it is essential that various stakeholders are able to integrate their different knowledge and perspectives. A method that supports knowledge integration in the course of introduction and development of socio-technical systems is the…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Success, Context Effect, Technology
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Madda, Christina L.; Halverson, Richard R.; Gomez, Louis M. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: School districts are responsible for helping schools improve learning for students. However, many district initiatives conflict with each other or with existing instructional practices in schools. Recent research on urban school reform points to the value of program coherence in sustaining school change. Our paper addresses an…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
Muth, Rodney; Bellamy, Thomas; Fulmer, Connie; Murphy, Michael – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2006
An annual-case process that examines principal leadership over the course of a year can provide extensive opportunities for practitioners and professors to collect, examine, and disseminate knowledge in, of, and about practice. Such cases can support professional development and pre-service preparation and become bases for research across multiple…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Documentation
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Lamsa, Anna-Maija; Sintonen, Teppo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to construct an approach referred to as "the participatory narrative" for organizational learning in diverse organizations. The approach is grounded in an understanding of organizational learning as the process of social construction which is narratively mediated. Design/methodology/approach: The participatory narrative is…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Learning Processes, Critical Theory, Knowledge Management
Coulon, Arnaud – European Training Foundation, 2009
Teacher and trainer training is one of the most important determinants of the success of reforms in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in recent years in the Mediterranean region. This is based upon the assumption that the role of teachers and trainers in the reform of TVET is a dual one; that of stakeholder and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Comparative Analysis
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Schatzle, Chad – Journal of Access Services, 2005
After reviewing the history and parameters of the scholarly communications crisis, particularly in regard to skyrocketing prices for journals in the natural sciences, the author reviews and rejects previously attempted solutions. He then employs the principles of game theory in proposing a new solution to the crisis.
Descriptors: Game Theory, Natural Sciences, Communications, Scholarship
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Thite, Mohan – Learning Organization, 2004
With knowledge management as the strategic intent and learning to learn as the strategic weapon, the current management focus is on how to leverage knowledge faster and better than competitors. Research demonstrates that it is the cultural mindset of the people in the organisation that primarily defines success in knowledge intensive…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Human Resources, Knowledge Management, Strategic Planning
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Firestone, Joseph M.; McElroy, Mark W. – Learning Organization, 2004
To many in the fields of organizational learning (OL) and knowledge management (KM), the relationship between the two is something of a small mystery. The authors are practitioners coming from the KM side, who in the course of their work developed a process framework to delimit the scope of KM. They believe this framework also provides a context…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Organizational Development, On the Job Training, Work Environment
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Martin, Valerie A.; Hatzakis, Tally; Lycett, Mark; Macredie, Robert – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the development of the relationship management maturity model (RMMM), the output of an initiative aimed at bridging the gap between business units and the IT organisation. It does this through improving and assessing knowledge sharing between business and IT staff in Finco, a large financial…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Financial Services, Maturity (Individuals), Ethnography
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Sanchez-Alonso, Salvador; Frosch-Wilke, Dirk – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: The aim of this paper is discussing about the similarities between the life cycle of knowledge management and the processes in which learning objects are created, evaluated and used. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes LO and learning designs and depicts their integration into the knowledge life cycle (KLC) of the KMCI,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Knowledge Management, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Changiz, Tahereh; Moeeny, Ali; Jowshan, Reza – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2004
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, as one of the major medical universities in Iran, is an academic organization which is also responsible for all health-related services in Isfahan province. By development of IT infrastructures in the university, top management decided to utilize the capabilities of the growing IT infrastructures in order to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Information Systems, Foreign Countries, Medical School Faculty
Lakkala, Minna; Paavola, Sami; Toikka, Seppo; Bauters, Merja; Markannen, Hannu; de Groot, Reuma; Ben Ami, Zvi; Baurens, Benoit; Jadin, Tanja; Richter, Christoph; Zoserl, Eva; Batatia, Hadj; Paralic, Jan; Babic, Frantisek; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Moen, Anne; Norenes, Svein Olav; Bugnon, Alexandra; Karlgren, Klas; Kotzinons, Dimitris – Online Submission, 2008
One of the central goals of the KP-Lab project is to co-design pedagogical methods and technologies for knowledge creation and practice transformation in an integrative and reciprocal manner. In order to facilitate this process user tasks, driving objectives and high-level requirements have been introduced as conceptual tools to mediate between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer System Design, Educational Technology
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