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Ogbamichael, Hermon Berhane. "Information & knowledge sharing within virtual communities of practice (VCoPs)." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2799.
Full textThe concept of virtual community of practice (VCoP) emanates from the need to create a new mode of learning and knowledge creation. It is found that highly structured forums are not necessarily the best way to assist people to learn and improve their knowledge. This then, requires organisations to seek alternative informal ways to share knowledge. The significance of optimising knowledge sharing results in VCoPs receiving considerable attention while searching for new ways to draw on expertise dispersed across global operations. This impacts organisations, thereby enabling them to respond more speedily to the demands of their stakeholders. The fast pace of change in their business environments is also a factor to contend with. Within this context, the use of VCoPs to optimise both, tacit and explicit knowledge sharing within stakeholders, is the central theme of this research. The findings from literature enables the researcher to explore scientific based models that may have the potential to enhance knowledge sharing in an enterprise. The Life Cycle knowledge flow model is found to be the most comprehensive compared to two other models – namely, a Spiral knowledge flow model and Dynamic knowledge flow model. The outflow from the findings in literature is that the Life Cycle knowledge flow model is selected as the basis to conduct two surveys to determine if the model could be adapted to improve knowledge sharing within VCoPs in particular, and in an enterprise in general. The result of the two surveys conducted (in 2011/2012 and 2016), leads to establishing an extended Life Cycle knowledge flow model. The established model enhances knowledge sharing within VCoPs, and in turn, assists when optimising knowledge sharing in an enterprise. This extended model covers six phases of knowledge development to improve knowledge sharing within VCoPs. The first phase enhances the creation of both, tacit and explicit knowledge. The second phase enables to optimise the organisation of knowledge. The third phase enables the formalisation of tacit knowledge, that is, conversion of tacit to explicit knowledge. The fourth phase improves the distribution of knowledge. The fifth phase enables to optimise the application of knowledge and the final phase enables the evolution or continuous development of knowledge. The contribution of this research proposes that a comprehensive knowledge flow model, namely the Life Cycle knowledge flow model found in literature, served as the basis for this research. However, this model was never tested or verified if it indeed optimises knowledge sharing within VCoPs. The two surveys (Survey One 2011/12 and Survey Two 2016) were developed and distributed to respondents to verify the model’s suitability to VcoPs. As a result of responses received from the two surveys, the researcher was then able to develop an extended Life Cycle knowledge flow model that particularly, optimises knowledge sharing within VCoPs. This research further contributes in formulating a scientific based knowledge flow model that can be adapted to social networks. Therefore, this research also creates the foundation to further study to investigate the optimisation of knowledge sharing in social networks. In recent literature, social networks are established as one of the informal mechanisms to share and enhance knowledge sharing in an enterprise.
Mason, Cecily Jane, and cecilym@deakin edu au. "Virtual Communities of Enterprise Value Creation Potential for Regional Clusters." Deakin University. Management and Marketing, 2008. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20090129.152913.
Full textArnell, Rose. "Teacher Beliefs on Personal Learning, Collaboration, and Participation in Virtual Communities of Practice." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/48.
Full textAraya, Rebolledo Jacqueline Paz. "Analysis of scientific virtual communities of practice." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2015. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/130775.
Full textLas diferentes redes sociales han surgido a partir del sentido común y natural de los humanos por reunirse en torno a un tema, sintiendo que pertenecen a una Comunidad, la cual es representada por una red de relaciones complejas entre las unidades que cambia con el tiempo. Una Comunidad es un grupo de vértices que comparten propiedades comunes y desempeñan un papel similar dentro del grupo, las cuales pueden ser clasificadas como Comunidades de interés, en el que los miembros comparten un interés particular, y Comunidades de práctica, donde los miembros comparten inquietudes, participan y desarrollan un tema volviéndose expertos. Si estas interacciones ocurren sobre plataformas en línea, son llamadas Comunidades virtuales de interés (VCoI) y Comunidades virtuales de práctica (VCoP). El estudio de las Comunidades virtuales (VC) no sólo ayuda a entender su estructura interna, sino que también a descubrir cómo el conocimiento es compartido, los principales miembros, proporcionar herramientas a los administradores para mejorar la participación y asegurar la estabilidad de la comunidad en el tiempo. El área de Análisis de Redes Sociales y de Minería de Datos han estudiado el problema, pero ninguno toma en cuenta el significado del contenido que los miembros de una comunidad generan. Por lo tanto, la principal contribución de este trabajo es tomar en cuenta la semántica de los contenidos creados por los miembros de dos VCoP, así como las propiedades estructurales de las redes que forman, para estudiar la existencia de otros miembros claves, buscar los principales temas de investigación, y estudiar las propiedades de las nuevas redes creadas con contenido. Se utilizó una VCoP científica del área de computación ubicua, y otra del área Web Semántica, considerando como data los autores de los papers aceptados en las conferencias de las comunidades y su contenido. Este trabajo propone dos métodos, el primero, busca representar cada artículo escrito por los miembros por sus Keywords, y el segundo, busca extraer los temas subyacentes de cada paper con el modelo probabilístico LDA. Con el resultado de estos métodos, las interacciones entre autores pueden ser construidas basándose en el contenido en lugar de sólo la relación de coautoría (red base para comparar los métodos). La metodología propuesta es un proceso híbrido llamado SNA-KDD que incluye la extracción y procesamiento de datos de texto, para su posterior análisis con SNA para descubrir nueva información, utilizando teoría de grafos, algoritmos de clasificación (HITS y PageRank) y diferentes medidas estructurales para redes. Los resultados muestran que las redes científicas en estudio pueden ser modeladas como VCoPs usando la metodología SNA-KDD usando teoría de grafos. Esto queda evidenciado en los resultados de la métrica Modularidad, obteniendo valores sobre 0,9 en la mayoría de las redes, lo que indica una estructura de comunidad. Además, los métodos propuestos para introducir el contenido generado por sus miembros, Keywords y Modelo de Tópicos LDA, permite reducir la densidad de todas las redes, eliminando relaciones no relevantes. En la red de Computación Ubicua, con 1920 nodos, se redujo de 5.452 arcos a 1.866 arcos para método de Keywords y a 2.913 arcos para modelo LDA; mientras que en la red de Web Semántica permitió reducir de 20.332 arcos a 13.897 arcos y 8.502 arcos, respectivamente. La detección de miembros claves se realizó contra una comparación de los autores más prominentes del área según las citaciones en Google Scholar. Los resultados indican que la mejor recuperación de miembros claves se da en el método de tópicos por LDA con HITS para el primer dataset, para el segundo se da en Keywords, tanto en métricas de Recall como en Precision.
Majewski, Grzegorz. "Online knowledge sharing in virtual communities of practice." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557267.
Full textYavneh, Jonathan S. "Virtual communities in the law enforcement environment do these systems lead to enhanced organizational memory /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Dec/08Dec%5FYavneh.pdf.
Full textThesis Advisor(s): Bergin, Richard ; Josefek, Robert. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 5, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71). Also available in print.
Alghatas, Fathalla M. "Understanding Knowledge Sharing Within Communities of Practice. A Study of Engagement Patterns and Intervention within Community of Practice." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4243.
Full textRomero, Mas Montse. "Virtual Communities of Practice for Family Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's: Knowledge sharing and quality of life." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671646.
Full textCaring for a person with Alzheimer’s places a burden on family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s and there is a strong negative correlation between this burden and their quality of life. The aim of this research is to provide resources, specifically Virtual Communities of Practice, to help family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s cope with their role. This study was undertaken through an intervention which consisted of establishing two virtual communities of practice for caregivers: one moderated by an expert caregiver and the other by health professionals. Virtual communities of practice helped to improve the quality of life of family caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s, particularly if they included health professionals. Age and the relationship with the person with Alzheimer’s were moderator variables. Social knowledge and social support were priorities for the family caregivers. This study shows the benefit of virtual communities of practice lies in the ongoing social interaction.
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Han, Jung-Min. "The consumer negotiation of brand meaning in online brand communities." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-consumer-negotiation-of-brand-meaning-in-online-brand-communities(d7db292d-1fa1-4314-a595-53a2febbab44).html.
Full textRaphael, Leonard Chijioke Charles. "Fuzzy front end of innovation process management in high technology companies : knowledge sharing in virtual communities of practice." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11954/.
Full textBumbalough, Mathew. "The impact of social media on identity formation| A netnographic study of Korean graduate students' virtual communities of practice." Thesis, Indiana University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10143514.
Full textThis dissertation explored how Korean students from a Midwestern university use social media when they come to the United States for the first time to start graduate school. In order to do so, I conducted a netnography which examines their virtual communities to observe language use (both English and Korean) within the their virtual circle of friends. I did so for a period of one semester, with archival data dating back to when they first found out they were coming to the US. This thesis is based on the argument that Korean graduate students go through a shift in linguistic, cultural, and social identity, and that social media can provide those in the field of literacy, culture, and language education a glimpse into the literacy and language practices of international students outside of the classroom. This dissertation also explains the theoretical framework behind virtual communities, analyzes current literature about virtual communities in language education, uses Kozinets’ (2009) netnography as a methodology to conduct the research, and analyzes semi-structured interviews, social media, and questionnaire data through Creswell’s (2008) notion of thematic analysis. I conclude that the use of social media generally provides a means of identity expression for Korean graduate students, and that their linguistic, cultural, and social identities are not shaped by social media itself, but social media provides an outlet where we can see negotiation of identity from when they apply to the school and through their first semester of study; by using Korean as a language of social and cultural expression and English as a means of sharing information about their programs.
Prevedello, Clarissa Felkl. "Comunidades virtuais de prática no serviço público : quadro teórico para a organização de experiências e apoio à inovação." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134817.
Full textThe public service is undergoing a period of invention and changes in search of the New Public Management values-based approach to the demands of society, and encourage an open, transparent and innovative environment. Accordingly, the civil servant positions itself increasingly active and conscious of its role, willing to participate in an open challenge, other than imposed by a bureaucratic and dehumanized environment. In this context, this research was based on a case study that was used a participating observation permeated by a theoretical study of knowledge required to understand it and research it, involving the concepts of innovation in the public sector, organic intellectual and virtual communities of practice. For this, they were monitored and analyzed for two years the interactions of virtual community of practice of the Núcleo de Gestão Integrada of the rectory of the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense which used e-mail and virtual learning environment Moodle for to develop practices in the public sector In this context, the research on the practical reality during the period was permeated by theoretical study that identified the attitude of civil servants as organic intellectual, change agent, open to learning and innovator who uses of Information and Communication Technologies when working in virtual communities of practice. At the end, the survey identified a theoretical framework for identifying, characterizing and subsequently assist in the organization, conduct and analysis of experiences with virtual communities of practice and innovation environment in the public service for the development of the organic intellectual’s posture.
Correia, Marta Pinheiro Lemos. "Aprendizagem e compartilhamento de conhecimento em comunidades virtuais de prática: estudo de caso na comunidade virtual de desenvolvimento de software livre debian-br-cdd." Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2007. http://www.adm.ufba.br/sites/default/files/publicacao/arquivo/dissertacao-martacorreia.pdf.
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O objetivo geral desta dissertação é analisar como se dão os processos de aprendizagem/compartilhamento de conhecimento em comunidades virtuais de prática, identificando como os conhecimentos individuais se transformam em conhecimentos coletivos. Comunidades de prática existem desde a Antigüidade, entretanto, somente há pouco tempo vêm sendo pesquisadas pela academia e estimuladas pelas organizações líderes. Tais comunidades são vistas como locus privilegiado de aprendizagem e, conseqüentemente, como fontes de vantagem competitiva para as organizações. Mais recentemente, com o advento da Internet, surgiram as comunidades virtuais de prática, que são redes eletrônicas que reúnem, por adesão voluntária, indivíduos comprometidos e engajados numa prática comum e que trocam experiências e conhecimentos a respeito de um tema. Estas distinguem-se das comunidades de prática tradicionais pela ausência da comunicação face-a-face nas interações, as quais são mediadas pelo computador. Apesar de já haver um volume razoável de estudos sobre as comunidades de prática, mormente no exterior, o mesmo não ocorre com as comunidades virtuais de prática. Os dados da pesquisa realizada na comunidade virtual de desenvolvimento de Software Livre DEBIAN-BR-CDD – uma comunidade virtual de prática – obtidos e analisados com base em técnicas qualitativas e quantitativas, corroboraram, em geral, resultados de pesquisas anteriores sobre aprendizagem de indivíduos em situações de trabalho e sobre processos associados de transformação desses conhecimentos adquiridos em conhecimento organizacional ou coletivo, indicando que, mesmo no ambiente virtual, a aprendizagem no plano individual ocorreu, por meio de estratégias acionadas pelos indivíduos, entre as quais, destacaram-se a busca em conhecimentos produzidos pela comunidade, o aprender fazendo e as consultas à comunidade. Esses conhecimentos adquiridos pelos indivíduos foram transformados em conhecimentos da comunidade DEBIAN-BR-CDD através de processos de codificação e socialização. Entre os processos de socialização foram enfatizados interações através de ferramentas assíncronas, especialmente lista de discussão, interações através de ferramentas síncronas e utilização da ferramenta de controle de versão, enquanto que os processos de codificação mais utilizados foram o registro de problemas em banco de dados de falhas, a utilização de ferramenta de controle de versão, a elaboração de manuais técnicos e de bancos de dados de Frequently Asked Questions. Foram ainda encontradas evidências de que, enquanto a tecnologia é indubitavelmente importante para suportar as interações no contexto das comunidades virtuais de prática, aspectos individuais como motivação e o nível de conhecimentos dos participantes, aliados a fatores como a confiança e a identificação destes com a comunidade são vitais para que os indivíduos compartilhem seus conhecimentos na rede, abrindo possibilidades de que a aprendizagem da comunidade venha a ocorrer.
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David, Cailean. "Community, Crowdsourcing, and Commerce: WhatsApp Groups for Agriculture in Kenya." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41530.
Full textTidwell, Craig Leonard. "Testing the impact of training with simulated scenarios for information security awareness on virtual community of practice members." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5058.
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Machado, Davi Marcos. "A estruturação de comunidades e redes sociais em ambiente virtual." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18247.
Full textEnding of century XX and mainly from the beginning of the XXI century, the popularization of the Internet access and the emergence of software which provide friendly environment for the inter-relationship of people in virtual space (MySpace, Orkut, Blogspot etc), has made the cyberspace to be occupied by a huge number of people with more diverse interests, which resulted in the appearance of virtual communities or social networks. These communities or networks are organized around several themes and interests. May simply be groups of adolescents who have fun to exchange views on some prominent personality in the media to communities that discuss issues such as education, philosophy, public health or groups that develop a project of great social or economic relevance. The objective of this research is to evaluate, through empirical analysis, based on the available literature, the feasibility of classifying the millions of virtual communities or social networks in just three major groups: virtual communities or social networks organized around projects, people and ideas. We believe that these three major groups are able to include all types of social groups in cyberspace, considering that each one has its peculiarities of organization and structure. "Project means a temporary business or a complex sequence of activities to provide a product. For people we considered the charismatic individual, able to attract other individuals to their environment, either by their capacity for leadership or the ability to provide interest information to a group of people. Ideas is meant a concept, a set of thoughts of an individual or a social group on any one topic, theory, point of view or opinion. The purpose of this classification (projects, people and ideas) is to identify the different forms of grouping, outlining the main features of each of these groups, the structure of the environment in which it is organized and dynamic. These settings can help people, institutions or companies who wish to use the cyberspace how environment of knowledge generation or development of activities or simply exchange ideas. From the characteristics of each type of community is possible to define the best structure and environment to be built, considering the interests and goals of those who structure the community or the network
No final do século XX e no início do século XXI, a popularização do acesso a Internet e o surgimento de softwares amigáveis e ambientes propícios à inter-relação de pessoas no espaço virtual (MySpace, Orkut, Blogspot etc) fez com que o ciberespaço passasse a ser povoado por um número imenso de pessoas com os mais diversos interesses, que resultou no surgimento de comunidades virtuais ou de redes sociais. Essas comunidades ou redes se organizam em torno dos mais diversos interesses. Podem ser grupos de adolescentes que se divertem ao trocar impressões sobre alguma personalidade em destaque na mídia até comunidades que debatem temas como educação, filosofia, saúde pública ou mesmo grupos que desenvolvem algum projeto de grande relevância social ou econômica. O objetivo desta pesquisa é avaliar a viabilidade de se classificar os milhões de comunidades virtuais ou redes sociais em apenas três grandes agrupamentos: comunidades ou redes organizadas em torno de projetos , de pessoas e de idéias . Acreditamos que esses três grandes grupos são capazes de comportar todos os tipos de agrupamentos sociais no ciberespaço, sendo que cada um deles possui suas peculiaridades de organização e estrutura. Entendemos por projeto um ação temporária que tempo por objetivo fornecer um produto singular. Por pessoas consideramos o individuo carismático, com capacidade de atração de outros indivíduos para seu entorno; e por idéias se entende um conceito, um conjunto de pensamentos ou concepções de um indivíduo ou de um grupo social sobre um tema qualquer. O objetivo de tal classificação (projetos, pessoas e idéias) é identificar as diferentes formas de agrupamento e apontar suas principais características. Tais definições podem contribuir com pessoas, instituições ou empresas que pretendam utilizar o ciberespaço como ambiente de geração de conhecimento ou de desenvolvimento de atividades ou simplesmente troca de idéias. A partir das características de cada tipo de comunidade é possível se definir qual a melhor estrutura, levando-se em conta o interesse e objetivo de quem estrutura a comunidade ou a rede
Fraslin, Marie. "Evaluating the capacity of a virtual r&d community of practice : The case of ALSTOM power hydro." Thesis, Grenoble, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENI059/document.
Full textIn this dissertation, we explore the potential of a forum to support collaboration and knowledge sharing among Virtual Communities of practice. We thus propose a coding scheme based on the Rainbow model and test it in order to analyze the content of two forums of R&D VcoP. We demonstrate that a forum supports asynchronous argumentative activities and thus enhances global collaboration and knowledge sharing among R&D VcoP members. We then propose an enriched model based on the work of Line Dube and tested it to characterize the R&D VcoP studied. We prove that the community configuration has a direct impact on the online dynamic of the community. We point out the main factors that play a key role in fostering online collaboration and knowledge sharing between R&D Virtual community members
Klimanova, Liudmila. "Second language identity building through participation in internet-mediated environments: a critical perspective." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5001.
Full textPaulos, Alice Maria Vaz. "Criação e partilha de conhecimento em comunidades de prática electrónicas: factores potenciadores e constrangedores." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/1179.
Full textNo ambiente de mercado actual as organizações lidam com dois problemas fundamentais: a situação financeira à escala mundial e a forte concorrência decorrente da globalização de produtos e serviços e da entrada de novos países, tais como a China e Índia. Neste contexto e ao contrário das revoluções anteriores, a diferenciação entre empresas não emana dos equipamentos utilizados mas antes depende da capacidade de geração e aplicação do conhecimento conducente à criação de vantagens competitivas sustentáveis e à inovação. Acresce ainda que o conhecimento necessário para gerar valor acrescentado às organizações não se pode obter unicamente da formação formal mas é consequência, também, do contacto diário com o mercado, os problemas, os clientes, etc, isto é, da experiência prática dos colaboradores. As Comunidades de Prática (CdP) emergem, assim, como estruturas adequadas para suportar a aprendizagem que decorre da vivência prática de cada colaborador. Estas consistem em relações informais que facilitam a criação e partilha de conhecimento entre indivíduos com o objectivo de, em conjunto, melhorarem o modo como executam as tarefas associadas à sua prática. No entanto, paradoxalmente, à medida que a necessidade de conhecimento cresce, as organizações tem, cada vez, maior dificuldade na sua captura e difusão. Com a globalização e a consequente dispersão geográfica, os colaboradores passaram a dispor de menos oportunidades de interacção e como tal a partilha e criação de conhecimento diminuir. Como forma de incrementar a necessidade de interacção e devido ao grande desenvolvimento das tecnologias da informação e da comunicação (TIC) começaram a surgir as comunidades de prática electrónicas (eCdP) constituindo estas o objecto de estudo desta investigação. As eCdP e as CdP são espaços privilegiados para a aprendizagem organizacional revelando-se, pois, crucial, compreender os factores que poderão facilitar ou condicionar a criação e partilha de conhecimento nas eCdP. Assim, este trabalho tem como objectivo estudar os factores susceptíveis de facilitar ou condicionar a partilha e criação de conhecimento nas eCdP. No estudo empírico foram desenvolvidos três estudos de casos, em empresas multinacionais do sector das TIC, com recurso à utilização de dois momentos de entrevistas sendo que o primeiro foi acompanhado de um questionário de caracterização das eCdP envolvidas na investigação.
In the contemporary market environment, organizations are dealing with two fundamental problems: the current financial situation worldwide and strong competition from the globalization of products and services, with entry of new countries such as China and India into the market. Unlike previous significant changes in the methods of production, the competitiveness of companies now depends not only on the physical resources available to them but also on their capacity for innovation; this, in turn, is driven by the capability to create and make use of new knowledge to ensure sustainable competitive advantage. The knowledge required to create added value can be gained by formal training but is most likely to arise as a consequence of daily contact with the market, production problems, customers, etc. through the daily experiences of employees. Properly encouraged, Communities of Practice (CoP) can then emerge naturally to channel the practical learning of employees into innovative activities. They support informal relationships, which facilitate the creation and sharing of knowledge between individuals in order to develop innovative ways of improving performance. Paradoxically, as the need for knowledge grows, the organization has, increasingly, more problems concerning its capture and dissemination. With globalization and consequent geographical dispersion, employees have fewer opportunities for face-to face interaction; this means the creation and sharing of knowledge can decline. One way of improving interaction is to improve communication between employees; the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) gave rise to electronic communities of practice (vCoP), which is the subject of this research. The vCoP and CoP are the best spaces for organizational learning and creation of new knowledge. The factors that may facilitate or constrain these activities are clearly important. This research aims to identify those factors. An empirical study was developed using three case studies of multinational companies in the ICT sector. Interviews were conducted in two phases; the first was also accompanied by a questionnaire to characterize the VCoP being studied.
Mietk, Marcus, Cedric Zander, and Moritz Hesse. "Erfolgsgeschichte GeNeMe? – Eine bibliometrische Untersuchung der Autorenschaft über zwei Jahrzehnte." TUDpress, 2018. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A33855.
Full textAffonso, Luiz Carlos. "Comunidades de práticas na internet: um estudo de duas comunidades hospedadas em portais públicos brasileiros." Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro / Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia, 2012. http://ridi.ibict.br/handle/123456789/770.
Full textThis dissertation investigates the interaction and learning processes that occur in virtual communities of practice, with emphasis given to experiences hosted in Brazilian public portals. To better understand these experiences one considers here the general characteristics and evolution of some outstanding initiatives of electronic government in Brazil. One also considers theoretical approaches to the following basic concepts: community, social network, virtual community and virtual social network, virtual communities of practice. Specificities, advantages and problems involved in the creation and maintenance of virtual communities of practice, according to experts, are taken into consideration in an online questionnaire applied to the members of two virtual communities: The Amadeus community hosted in the Brazilian Portal de Software Público and the community called Comitê Técnico de Gestão do Conhecimento e Informação Estratégica (CT-GCIE) hosted in the Portal das Comunidades Virtuais do Setor Público. Results obtained from data analysis developed here, systematically comparing the two communities, indicate that they are active and seem to contribute to their member s professional development. Results, including suggestions given by respondents, also point out to some problems faced by the communities studies and provide some ideas to those interested in creating, participating and in keeping alive an online community of practice
Esta dissertação investiga os processos de interação e aprendizagem em comunidades de prática virtuais, com ênfase em experiências hospedadas em portais públicos brasileiros. Para melhor compreensão dessas experiências, abordam-se, inicialmente, algumas características gerais, evolução e iniciativas marcantes do governo eletrônico no Brasil. A seguir, consideram-se as discussões teóricas envolvidas no uso de conceitos fundamentais para o entendimento do tema: os conceitos de comunidade e de rede social, de comunidade virtual e de rede social na internet, bem como de comunidade de prática na internet. Abordam-se aqui também as considerações de especialistas sobre vantagens, especificidades e problemas envolvidos na criação e manutenção de comunidades de práticas na internet. Alguns aspectos básicos destacados por teóricos do tema das comunidades de prática embasam a elaboração de um questionário online aplicado aos membros de duas comunidades virtuais: a comunidade Amadeus hospedada no Portal de Software Público Brasileiro e na comunidade Comitê Técnico de Gestão do Conhecimento e Informação Estratégica (CT-GCIE) hospedada no Portal das Comunidades Virtuais do Setor Público. A análise dos dados, cotejando sistematicamente as características das duas comunidades, revela que ambas estão ativas e parecem contribuir significativamente para o desenvolvimento profissional dos seus membros. Os resultados obtidos, incluindo as sugestões fornecidas pelos respondentes, também desvendam alguns problemas e apontam caminhos a serem tomados para a melhoria e o crescimento das comunidades focalizadas no estudo, bem como fornecem insumos para aqueles que estejam interessados em criar, participar ativamente e manter viva uma comunidade de prática online
Sanz, Martos Sandra. "Comunidades de práctica: fundamentos, caracterización y comportamiento." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667131.
Full textEsta tesis tiene un objetivo de doble naturaleza. Por un lado, acotar y definir el concepto de comunidad de práctica, y por otro, identificar aquellos elementos que facilitan el buen funcionamiento de las comunidades de práctica a partir de casos de éxito. Para ello, la tesis se estructura del siguiente modo: en primer lugar, se realiza una aproximación a los antecedentes de las comunidades de práctica, tanto desde el punto de vista de la predisposición natural del hombre a cooperar, como desde las primeras formas de organización basadas en la compartición de experiencias. En segundo lugar, y tras la revisión de la bibliografía especializada, se definen los conceptos comunidad, comunidad virtual y redes sociales virtuales. Posteriormente, se define y caracteriza el término comunidad de práctica. Partiendo de este ejercicio de caracterización se establece una comparativa con otros grupos y equipos y otro tipo de comunidades virtuales. Por último, se evidencian los beneficios que aporta la virtualidad a las comunidades de práctica. En tercer lugar, y tomando como referencia los casos clásicos de comunidades de práctica Xerox y Tramitadores, se extraen los criterios que muestran que las comunidades de práctica funcionan y los factores de éxito que lo hacen posible, para seguidamente adentrarse en el análisis de los casos seleccionados a los que se aplican dichos criterios de evaluación y factores de éxito. Dicha aplicación permite al mismo tiempo poner estos factores a prueba, de tal manera que, finalmente, se propone un modelo de elementos que favorecen el buen funcionamiento de las comunidades de práctica. La tesis concluye apuntando algunas líneas futuras de investigación que hacen referencia a los beneficios tangibles que pueden aportar las comunidades de práctica a las organizaciones.
This PhD thesis presents two main objectives. On the one hand, it aims to delimit and define the concept of community of practice. On the other, by analysing successful cases, it seeks to identify the elements that help communities of practice function properly. The thesis is structured as follows: we will first take a look at the predecessors of communities of practice, attending to humankind¿s natural predisposition towards cooperation, and to earlier forms of organization based on shared experiences. Secondly, after a review of specialized literature, we will proceed to define key concepts, such as community, virtual community and virtual social networks. After that, we will define and characterize the term ¿community of practice¿ and set up a comparative analysis of other groups and teams, along with other kinds of virtual communities. This will lead us to the next section, where we will emphasize the relevant contribution online environments make in communities of practice. Then, by exploring classic case examples of communities of practice (Xerox and the medical insurance claim processors), we will extract criteria that will allow us to show that communities of practice do indeed work, and to define the success factors that make them possible. Finally, we will delve into the analysis of the selected cases, applying these assessment criteria and success factors. This process will give us the opportunity to test these factors and suggest a model of the elements that favour the proper running of communities of practice.
Krisper-Ullyett, Lotte, Max Harnoncourt, and Paul Meinl. "Erfolgsbedingungen für virtuelle selbstorganisierte Lerngemeinschaften." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-156289.
Full textKrisper-Ullyett, Lotte, Max Harnoncourt, and Paul Meinl. "Erfolgsbedingungen für virtuelle selbstorganisierte Lerngemeinschaften." Technische Universität Dresden, 2005. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28411.
Full textPakdel, Ali. "De l'activité communicative à l'activité sociale d'apprentissage des langues en ligne : analyse de la dynamique sociale en contexte institutionnel." Phd thesis, Université de Provence - Aix-Marseille I, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00637137.
Full textMotsi, Harma. "Wireless applications for virtual communities of practice." 2004. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000853.
Full textThe idea of wireless application protocols (WAP) has been around for a while. Many organisations have invested heavily in developing these applications and services, but have failed to find the real benefits due to limitations of the most important aspect that could turn it into an everyday aspect of life, namely a reliable broadband connection. At the dawn of the wireless Internet, many organisations emerged with grand ideas of extending existing Internet content and services to mobile devices, making personal and corporate data and application services available anytime and anywhere. This dissertation proposes enhancements of the bidding process of m-auctions for agricultural virtual communities of practice. This application will be used to access auction market information on a portal developed by the Tshwane University of Technology for such a purpose using WAP technology. The farming community will receive real-time auction information and share knowledge through their mobile phones or personal digital assistants (PDA) when they need it. This will assist in making the community more effective and thus improving productivity. For example, knowledge of real market prices will put the farmer in a better position to negotiate with the middleman, offering to transport goods to the market. WAP is seen as a means of connecting wired networks to the new wireless networks. Wireless technology can provide agricultural communities with the opportunity to access vast amounts of information independently of their location. This, in turn, will open the door to m-commerce for these communities. The unified modelling language (UML) is used to aid the design and development of the simulation system with the application programme code written in WML. WMLScript is used for the implementation of the simulation. The simulation is demonstrated using the Nokia Toolkit. The dissertation is concluded with suggestions for future research and development based on the work throughout this research.
Hsueh, Chih-Ming, and 薛智名. "Knowledge Map Discovery in Virtual Communities of Practice." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53321824215651585999.
Full text國立中山大學
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This thesis proposes a knowledge management technique, called knowledge map management system, which consists of three components: knowledge navigation, knowledge seeking, and learning history advisory. The knowledge navigation function helps knowledge seekers to understand the knowledge structure. Similarly, the knowledge-seeking component helps knowledge seekers to retrieve knowledge with its structure. The learning adviser generalizes the knowledge access pattern in problem solving history and advises knowledge in the problem solving process. In this study, we prototype the knowledge map management system to facilitate knowledge sharing activities. In order to keep the knowledge map up to date, we also propose the incremental approach to maintaining knowledge structure with the addition of knowledge artifacts. The knowledge map creation and maintenance functions are evaluated using documents collected from SCTNet and master thesis repository at National Central Library, and result in encouraging results.
Tsela, Dumisani. "Virtual communities of practice in a mobile learning environment." Thesis, 2010. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000425.
Full textThis research addresses how mobile learning by means of a virtual community of practice can facilitate interaction and knowledge sharing amongst contact university learners as they traverse varied learning environments. Using Activity theory and the theory of social presence, the research aimed to provide an informed understanding of virtual communities of practice and how they manifest in a mobile learning environment. In this dissertation, virtual communities of practice are argued to effectively facilitate personalized learning support in an environment where learning is not confined to particular places. Importantly, virtual communities of practice are fundamentally modeled by awareness of context and social presence. Informed by empirical evidence gathered through a Contextual Inquiry method, a field research framework that depends on interaction with users in the context of their work, this study shows how mobile learners in a typical South African university could be afforded personalized academic support as they traverse varied learning environments.
Tsai, Yu-Hui, and 蔡玉惠. "Exploring Knowledge Sharing Continuance Intention in Virtual Communities of Practice." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q34944.
Full text國立中央大學
資訊管理研究所
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Due to the prosperous development of Internet, people can freely communicate to each other without any time and space limitations. Also, Internet changed the way people get together—via the Virtual Communities (VCs). Generally, virtual communities provide the platform for people to share knowledge, exchange message, and interaction socially, etc. However, there are various types of virtual communities. The most popular among knowledge workers are Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoPs). Through the progress of discussion, professional workers create and accumulate new practical knowledge which is useful. Enterprises also get indirectly benefits from knowledge-sharing activities because they can reduce lots of on-job training cost and improve their sustainable advantages by their skillful employees. Nevertheless, managing the VCoPs is never easy. The manager must build knowledge creating and reserving mechanism to attract members’ continuous participation. This research integrated justice and trust theories to understand the knowledge sharing continuance intention of VCoPs members. We verified our research model and hypotheses with data collected from 179 members of IT-related VCoPs in Taiwan. The results show that distributive justice and procedural justice are significant positive predictors of trust in members. In addition, interpersonal justice and informational justice positively influence trust in management. Furthermore, both trust in members and management are positively related on members’ knowledge sharing satisfaction and continuance intentions. Implications for theory and practice, suggestions for future research, and research limitations are also discussed.
Hung-ChunSu and 蘇鴻鈞. "Knowledge Contribution in Virtual Communities of Practice: Perspectives from Social Capital and Theory of Collective Action." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55643946838664619806.
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The proliferation of virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) has dramatically and positively influenced the dissemination of knowledge. Thus the issues about why members of VCoPs violate rationality and further contribute knowledge in VCoPs have attracted the attention of researchers. Knowledge contribution in VCoPs can be explained by applying concepts of social capital and theory of collective action. However, to our best knowledge, there is no study that ever attempted to elaborate the relationship between social capital and theory of collective action or to examine the correlations of dimensions of social capital (structural capital, cognitive capital, and relational capital) in the context of VCoPs. For the purpose of discussing the above issues, this thesis conducted an investigation from the members of two VCoPs in Taiwan by applying the concepts of social capital, theory of collective action, and members’ sense of belonging toward the VCoPs. 232 valid questionnaires were collected. Analysis results from the questionnaires show that both members’ structural capital and cognitive capital are positively and significantly related to members’ sense of belonging, and, in turn, members’ sense of belonging is positively and significantly related to relational capital. Eventually, relational capital has a positive and significant influence on the knowledge contribution of members. The results also examined the correlations among dimensions of social capital and provide evidence that there is a significant and positive relationship between structural capital and cognitive capital. In conclusion, this thesis provides further understanding of knowledge contribution in VCoPs. For managerial implications, the study suggests that administrators of VCoPs can provide support for maintaining the proper level of feelings of sense of belonging and social capital among members within the VCoPs in order to improve their knowledge contribution.
Mckay, Robert Forbes. "Distributed communities of practice : an exploration of a distributed community of practice of South African Life Science teachers." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23160.
Full textDissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2009.
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Silva, Adelina Maria Pereira da. "Produção e utilização de saberes na era digital : um estudo antropológico." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2615.
Full textNum mundo em profundas e aceleradas transformações, a Internet e o Ciberespaço emergem como um objeto de pesquisa antropológica. O objetivo deste estudo é refletir sobre o papel da antropologia quando o objeto de estudo se localiza no espaço virtual, num “não-lugar”. O Ciberespaço apresenta-se como um novo espaço de vida e prática sociais que influenciam o quotidiano, alterando a forma como os sujeitos interagem, se relacionam, trabalham e aprendem. O estudo realizado durante o Trabalho de Campo - uma comunidade virtual de prática – incidiu na observação das mudanças das práticas sociais e nas relações dos sujeitos membros dessa comunidade, analisando: a colaboração, a participação, a identidade, a interação e sociabilidade, e a moderação. Reflete-se também sobre as mudanças metodológicas que decorrem deste novo objeto de estudo – para novos espaços/novas metodologias. Para a Recolha de Dados recorreu-se à netnografia, um método de pesquisa em ambientes virtuais inspirado na etnografia. A utilização de uma netnografia, permitiu o registo e captura de informações que nos levaram a concluir que, por um lado, os saberes desenvolvidos durante a prática social na comunidade virtual de prática observada, a colaboração, a participação e a interação são fatores essenciais à construção da identidade do “ser membro”, e estão associados aos mecanismos de aprendizagem, desenvolvendo o sentimento de pertença e que, por outro lado, as práticas sociais, na comunidade virtual de prática estudada, são (re)produtoras dos saberes e identidades.
In a world of profound and rapid changes, the Internet and Cyberspace emerge as an object of anthropological research. The aim of this study is to reflect on the role of anthropology when the object of study is located in virtual space, a "non place". Cyberspace presents itself as a new space of social life and practice that influence the everyday, changing the way individuals interact, relate, work and learn. The study carried out during Field Work - a virtual community of practice - focused on the observation of changes in social practices and relationships of the subject members of the community, analyzing: collaboration, participation, identity, interaction and sociability, and moderation. This study also reflects on the methodological changes that flow from this new object of study - new areas / new methodologies. For Data Collection, we used a method of research in virtual environments inspired by ethnography - the netnography. The use of netnography allowed us the recording and the capture of information that led us to conclude that, on the one hand, the knowledge developed during the social practice in the virtual community of practice observed, collaboration, participation and interaction, are essential to building the identity of "membership" and, therefore, associated with learning mechanisms, developing a sense of belonging to the community and that, on the other hand, social practices, in the virtual community of practice studied, are (re)production of knowledge and identities.
Pestana, Nuno Luz Câmara. "Comunidades de prática virtuais : preditores da sua eficácia em contexto empresarial." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8014.
Full textPropósito – Com a necessidade de saber em que medida as empresas podem potenciar os resultados de Comunidades de Prática Virtuais em linha com os objetivos de negócio, este estudo tem como principal objetivo analisar se a existência de condições organizacionais facilitadoras para a participação, a performance da plataforma digital e a satisfação com as atividades desenvolvidas enquanto mediadora, podem ser fatores preditores da perceção de eficácia das Comunidades de Prática Virtuais. Metodologia - Com base nas variáveis acima mencionadas foram criadas hipóteses e construído o modelo de análise para testar a equação formulada. A amostra é constituída por 175 respostas a um questionário online submetido aos membros pertencentes a nove Comunidades de Prática Virtuais de uma empresa do setor privado. Descobertas - Os resultados obtidos revelam que os membros têm uma maior perceção da eficácia das Comunidades de Prática Virtuais quando a empresa cria condições facilitadoras para a sua participação e a plataforma digital de suporte ao ambiente virtual facilita a comunicação e arquiva o conhecimento partilhado. A satisfação dos membros com as atividades desenvolvidas revelou ser um mediador estatisticamente significativo desta relação. Originalidade – Este estudo é um dos primeiros a analisar os fatores contribuintes para a eficácia das Comunidades de Prática Virtuais em empresas do setor privado.
Purpose - With the need to know to what extent companies can enhance the results of Virtual Communities of Practice, this study has as main objective to analyse whether the existence of organizational conditions that facilitate participation, the performance of the digital platform and satisfaction with the activities as a mediator, can be predictive factors of the perception of the effectiveness of the Virtual Communities of Practice. Methodology - Based on the variables mentioned above, hypotheses were created, and the analysis model was built to test the formulated equation. The sample consists of 175 responses to an online questionnaire submitted to members belonging to nine Virtual Communities of Practice of a private sector company. Findings - The results obtained reveal that members have a greater perception of the effectiveness of Virtual Communities of Practice when the organization creates conditions that facilitate their participation and when the digital platform that supports the virtual environment facilitates communication and archives shared knowledge. Member satisfaction with the activities developed proved to be a statistically significant mediator of this relationship. Originality - This study is one of the first to analyse the factors contributing to the effectiveness of Virtual Communities of Practice in private sector companies.
Rocha, Maria Antonieta. "Comunidades virtuais de prática : contextos educacional, profissional e sociedade civil." Doctoral thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/2944.
Full textFace à atual ecologia da Web 2.0 e poder da Rede global, o presente estudo desenvolve uma análise da importância e enriquecimento que verdadeiras comunidades virtuais de prática potenciam bem como, a fim de que possam ser disseminadas, averigua as suas características e boas práticas em três diferentes contextos: educacional, profissional e sociedade civil. As opções metodológicas da nossa investigação recaíram na adoção de uma abordagem qualitativa e estudos de caso múltiplos. Relativamente à recolha de dados optámos inicialmente pela observação à dinâmica das sete comunidades a que se seguiram entrevistas semi-diretivas e um questionário online aos membros de todas as comunidades estudadas. A análise efetuada evidenciou que, das sete comunidades estudadas, apenas a comunidade em contexto educacional e as duas em contexto profissional se afiguram como comunidades virtuais de prática. Constatou-se ainda que no contexto da sociedade civil, ao invés de comunidades virtuais de prática, encontrámos uma tendência para a existência de redes. Emergiu da análise dos casos estudados que para a formação e proliferação de uma comunidade virtual de prática – identificada no contexto educacional e profissional - é determinante a vontade expressa de um conjunto de indivíduos que se identifiquem, entre si, e com um domínio reconhecido como relevante num espaço sem hierarquia explícita, não tutelar nem tutelado, sem demasiada estruturação. A resposta à dúvida colocada como a partilha de experiência assume-se fundamental para alimentar estas comunidades. Verificámos ainda que, para que uma comunidade virtual de prática seja dinâmica e possa proliferar, importa ter em conta alguns aspetos: (a) rejeição de controlo; (b) democracia; (c) liderança horizontal e partilhada; (d) estruturação moderada; (e) tecnologia facilitadora de interação e dinâmica; (f) conhecimento anterior entre alguns membros. Por último, constatámos a importância de comunidades virtuais de prática constituídas por pares, fora de controlo empresarial ou tutelar, mas antes enquanto formas organizativas informais. Com efeito, estas propiciam a partilha e discussão das temáticas e atividades inerentes a cada carreira profissional.
Given the current ecology of Web 2.0 and the power of the global network, this study develops an analysis of the importance and enrichment that real virtual communities of practice provide, in addition to examining their characteristics and good practices in three different contexts, as a means of ensuring the disclosure of the same: educational, professional and civil society. The methodology selected for our research involved the use of a qualitative approach and multiple case studies. Data collection initially consisted of observing the operations of the seven communities followed by semi-directive interviews and an online questionnaire completed by the members of all the communities under analysis. The analysis conducted revealed that of the seven communities in question, only the community classified in an educational context and the two communities classified in a professional context were actually virtual communities of practice. Furthermore, we ascertained the existence of networks rather than virtual communities of practice in relation to the context of civil society. The analysis of the case studies revealed that the creation and proliferation of a virtual community of practice – identified in the educational and professional context – is dependent on the express will of a series of individuals who see eye to eye, and with a domain regarded as relevant in an environment with no explicit hierarchy, neither protected nor protective, and with no excessive structuring. The answer to the doubt specified as the sharing of experiences becomes vital in relation to supplying these communities. We also ascertained that the following specific factors need to taken into consideration to ensure a virtual community of practice is dynamic and will proliferate: (a) rejection of control; (b) democracy; (c) horizontal and shared leadership; (d) moderate structuring; (e) technology which facilitates interaction and dynamic activity; (f) prior acquaintance between some of the members. Finally, we determined the importance of virtual communities of practice consisting of pairs, beyond corporate or tutelary control, but rather as informal organizational bodies. As such, it is these communities which ensure the issues and activities inherent to each professional career are shared and discussed.