INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION ASPECTS IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Ileana Hamburg

2011

Abstract

Communities of Practice (CoPs) and intercultural learning are approaches empowering people with the skills and knowledge needed to turn change to an advantage d to help them to integarte in social life. In this paper we firstly discuss CoPs to support learning, sharing, transferring and developing knowledge and then present some statements for building CoPs based on Social media and using intercultural learning. We give examples of projects where we develope CoPs and present some conclusions.

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Hamburg I. (2011). INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION ASPECTS IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 503-506. DOI: 10.5220/0003197405030506


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@conference{webist11,
author={Ileana Hamburg},
title={INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION ASPECTS IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={503-506},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003197405030506},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND COLLABORATION ASPECTS IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - Hamburg I.
PY - 2011
SP - 503
EP - 506
DO - 10.5220/0003197405030506