Scientific knowledge dissemination in Danish seed communities of practice

Principles for Cultivating Scientific Communities of Practice

Scientific communities can be seen as a specific type of Communities of Practice (CoP). In this paper we analyze scientific communities from the CoP point of view. We show how models and design principles from CoP can be interpreted and adapted for scientific communities. Taking the CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) community as an example, we instantiate the adapted design princ...

Identifying Knowledge Flows in Communities of Practice

Knowledge Management in Virtual Communities of Practice

Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoPs) are groups of people who get together to discuss and share their knowledge on a given domain using a virtual environment. Experiences are exchanged within the community. Members use community knowledge to solve their own problems and share the solution with the community. Thus, the more the community helps its members, the more its knowledge grows, and th...

TeacherBridge: Knowledge Management in Communities of Practice

The TeacherBridge (Basic Resources for Integrated Distributed Group Environments) motivates collaboration and supports online tools for teachers’ professional resource management by providing a socio-technical infrastructure for community networks. While this project focuses initially on local science and mathematics teachers, resources developed are designed to be globally diffused to a wide v...

Knowledge Adoption in Online Communities of Practice

In this study, we investigate how members of text-based, asynchronous online communities of practice (COPs) adopt knowledge contributed by other COP members. Previous studies of knowledge adoption in computermediated settings have drawn on dual-process theories of information processing to understand the role of heuristic cues and elaboration likelihood in this process. We extend this research ...