Although groups have been interacting online since the 1970s, the notion of virtual
community is relatively recent and has particular connotations (Turkle, 1995). Rheingold …

The knowledge, skills and attitudes taught on Advanced Life Support (ALS) courses are an
important learning requirement for healthcare professionals who are involved with the care …

This chapter describes 10 selected theoretical approaches to education, exploring their
implications for the practice of medical education. The theoretical approaches are social …

Abstract Knowledge Management (KM) is a field that has attracted much attention both in
academic and practitioner circles. Most KM projects appear to be primarily concerned with …

Innovations in mobile technology shape how mobile workers share knowledge and
collaborate on the go. We introduce mobile communities of practice (MCOPs) as a lens for …

Aimed at knowledge management professionals and students in the field of knowledge
management, information science, information systems and software engineering, the book …

'Communities of practice'has become an increasingly influential model of learning,
organization and creativity, and is informing current debates about learning processes …

The main aim of Knowledge Management (KM) is to connect people to quality knowledge as
well as people to people in order to peak performance. This is also the primary goal of …

This publication has grown out of two frustrations. One is the experience that so many
applications in the area of information and communication technology (lCT) are built without …

Organizational communities of practice (OCoPs) are used increasingly to capitalize on
valuable distributed knowledge and to fully engage the innovation potential of employees …