RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper is the first of three related papers exploring the ways in which the principles of Learning Organizations (LOs) could be applied in Primary Care settings at the point of service delivery. Here we introduce the notion of the Learning Practice (LP) and outline the characteristics and nature of an LP, exploring cultural and structural factors in detail. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse how team level conditions influenced health care professionals' responses to intimate partner violence. METHODS We used a multiple embedded case study. The cases were four primary health care teams located in a southern region of Spain; two of them considered "good" and two s "average". The two teams considered good had scored highest in practice issues for intimate partn...

Productivity and innovativeness of information work is becoming an important issue among information workers. This paper explores the working and learning of IS professionals when adopting new application development tools. I study how the IS professionals work, communicate, think through problems, and learn by way of getting work done. I also analyse the changes that the adoption causes to the...

With the rapid development of Facilitated Collaboration in Collaboration Engineering field, there are more and more applications of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) in the university undergraduate education worldwide. Collaborative team realized the significance of using collaborative technology and Facilitated Collaboration methods to improve working efficiency. In this paper, ...

In this article, we present the use of a term bank for text classification purposes. We developed a supervised text classification approach which takes advantage of the domain-based structure of a term bank, namely TERMIUM Plus, as well as its bilingual content. The goal of the text classification task is to correctly identify the appropriate fine-grained domains of short segments of text in bo...

The paper studies the relationship between organisational memory, team work and organisational learning. A development project carried out by a Finnish labour protection ofice during 1988-1992 is taken as a case study. During the development project the labour protection inspectors radically changed their work orientation and practices. At the same time as creating a new way of working the insp...

Introduction: We evaluated the effects of implementing Team-Based Learning (TBL) on student engagement, accountability,satisfaction, and preference for lecture or team-based learning.Moreover, we assessed the effect of TBL on knowledge retentionand application over time through short answer questions based onclinical scenarios addressing history taking and diagnosis skills inmedical students.Me...

For a team to achieve peak performance, its members must involve, support, and trust one another. And they must share information and commit to a process that will lead to success. This course teaches employees how their team can transform itself into a top-performing unit that significantly enhances its impact on the organization. Participants learn the personal, interpersonal, and business ad...