Communities of practice: bridging technology and knowledge assessment

Abstract

Introduces an assessment model being developed around a knowledge initiative in Pepperdine University’s Educational Technology Doctoral program (http://moon.pepperdine.edu/gsep/programs/ET). The knowledge initiative involves the implementation of group memory technology, developed by Intraspect Software (http://www.intraspect.com), in an attempt to cultivate a community of practice in the program. The assessment model looks for indicators of communities of practice and mines for usage patterns called “knowledge transactions”, as forms of measures.

Citation

Adams, E.C. and Freeman, C. (2000), "Communities of practice: bridging technology and knowledge assessment", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 38-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/13673270010315939