Communities of Practice

Brown, J.S. & Duguid, P. (1991). Organizational learning and communities of practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning and innovation. Organization Science. Vol. 2, No. 1 (Feb. 1991). Pp. 40-57. Full text: http://www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/orglearning.html

Colley, Helen. Phil Hodkinson and Janice Malcolm. Non-Formal Learning: Mapping the Conceptual Terrain. A Consultation Report.
http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/colley_informal_learning.htm

Lesser, E. & Prusak, L. (1999). Communities of practice, social capital and organizational knowledge. [A white paper for the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management] August, 1999. Full text: http://www.kmadvantage.com/docs/km_articles/Cop_-_Social_Capital_-_Org_K.pdf


National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. (NLII) Virtual Communities (NLII 2002–2003 Key Theme)http://www.educause.edu/nlii/keythemes/VirtualCommunities.asp

Wenger, E. C. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge University Press. Learn more: http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lmi.shtml

Wenger, E.C. & Snyder, W.M. (2000). Communities of practice: The organizational frontier. Harvard Business Review. Jan – Feb. 2000. p. 139. Full text: http://www.lahvista.cz/ceconsortium.com/pdf/commprac.pdf

Wenger, E.C. (2001). Supporting communities of practice: A survey of community- oriented technologies. Draft. Version 1.3 March, 2001. Full text: MS Word


Knowledge Communities

Lau, L. (2002). Knowledge Communities. Learn more: http://www.informatics.leeds.ac.uk/pages/03_research/05_knowledge_communities.htm


Knowledge Construction

Kanuka, H. & Anderson, T. (1998). Online social interchange, discord and knowledge construction. Journal of Distance Education. Full text: http://cade.athabascau.ca/vol13.1/kanuka.html.

Knowledge Construction Glossary (no date). Visit: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ostwald/glossaries/kc-glossary.html.

Knowledge Construction Symposium (2003). Joint International Symposium of CIB Working Commissions. Learn more: http://www.bdg.nus.edu.sg/ICKC/

Knowledge Management

Allee, V. (2001). The new business and knowledge management fundamentals. Adapted from New Business Fundamentals Perspectives newsletter. ASTD Mt. Diablo Chapter, August 2001. Full Text:
http://www.vernaallee.com/library%20articles%20pages/The%20New%20B%20andKMFundamentals.pdf

Allee, V. (2000). Knowledge networks & communities of practice. OD Practitioner. Fall-Winter 2000. Full Text: http://www.odnetwork.org/odponline/vol32n4/knowledgenets.html

Allee, V. (1997). A delightful dozen principles of knowledge management. From The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997. Originally published as “Knowledge and Self- organization,” by Executive Excellence. Jan. 1997. Full Text:
http://www.vernaallee.com/library%20articles%20pages/A%20Delightful%20Dozen%20Principles%20of%20Knowledge%20Management.pdf

Allee, V. (1997). Chevron maps key processes and transfers best practices. Knowledge, Inc. April 1997. Full text: www.webcom.com/quantera/Chevron.html.

Allee, V. (1999). Knowledge or learning? Published in Leverage. March 1999. Full Text:
http://www.vernaallee.com/library%20articles%20pages/Knowledge%20or%20Learning.pdf

Bellinger, Gene. Knowledge Management—Emerging Perspectives. Learn more:
http://www.outsights.com/systems/kmgmt/kmgmt.htm

Delio, M. (2001). Keys to collaboration. Full text: http://www.destinationKM.com/articles/default.asp?articleid=509.

Hood, P. (1990). How can studies of information consumers be used to improve the educational communication system. Knowledge In Society. Summer 90, vol. 3, issue 2, p 8. Full text: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9709075535&db=aph.

Knowledge Management (2003). Executive summaries. Full text: http://www.cio.com/summaries/enterprise/knowledge/index.html.

McDermott, R. (2001). Knowing in community: 10 critical success factors in building communities of practice. From Cultivating Communities of Practice. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Full text: http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/knowing.shtml

Storck, J. & Hill, P. (2000). Knowledge diffusion through strategic communities. Sloan Management Review. (Winter 2000). Pp. 63-74. Full text:
http://people.bu.edu/jstorck/Abstract-SMRStrategicCommunities.html

Knowledge Mapping

Rogers, E. W. (no date). Knowledge mapping: A practical tool for global knowledge sharing across cultures, functions and organizations. Learn more: http://www.mayjjer.com/globalmap.html.

Knowledge Objects

Ryder, Martin. (no date). Instructional Technology Connections. http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html

Knowledge Repositories

Aho, A. (2001). Accessing information from globally distributed knowledge repositories. Full text: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adam/mmis03/MMIS/info_sys_access.pdf.

Carroll, N. (2001). Retrieving information from dynamic knowledge repositories – overview. Full text: http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/02-dkr-ir-intro.shtml.


Knowledge Systems

Leeuwis, C. & Long, N. (1990). Equivocations on knowledge systems theory: An actor -oriented critique. Knowledge in Society. Fall 1990, vol. 3, issue 3, p 19. Full text: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9710221467&db=aph.


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