INTERCONNECTION OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - A Web Platform for Knowledge Management

Élise Garrot-Lavoué

2009

Abstract

Our works aim at developing a Web platform to connect various Communities of Practice (CoPs) and to capitalise on all their knowledge. This platform addresses CoPs interested in a same general activity, for example tutoring. For that purpose, we propose a general model of Interconnection of Communities of Practice (ICP), based on the concept of Constellation of Practice (CCP) developed by Wenger (1998). The model of ICP was implemented and has been used to develop the TE-Cap 2 platform which has, as its field of application, educational tutoring activities. In particular, we propose an indexation and search tool for the ICP knowledge base. The TE-Cap 2 platform has been used in real conditions. We present the main results of this descriptive investigation to validate this work.

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Garrot-Lavoué É. (2009). INTERCONNECTION OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - A Web Platform for Knowledge Management . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-013-9, pages 13-20. DOI: 10.5220/0002273500130020


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@conference{kmis09,
author={Élise Garrot-Lavoué},
title={INTERCONNECTION OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - A Web Platform for Knowledge Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={13-20},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002273500130020},
isbn={978-989-674-013-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2009)
TI - INTERCONNECTION OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - A Web Platform for Knowledge Management
SN - 978-989-674-013-9
AU - Garrot-Lavoué É.
PY - 2009
SP - 13
EP - 20
DO - 10.5220/0002273500130020