Facilitating Learning and Knowledge Transfer through Mentoring

Ileana Hamburg

2013

Abstract

Mentoring is a human resources development process supporting learning and knowledge transfer. Social media and Web services can be used for learning, communication with mentors and monitoring bringing also other advantages. In this paper formal and informal mentoring aspects and the use of IT in mentoring particularly social media and Web support will be shortly presented. Examples of projects where besides knowledge transfer, formal, informal learning also learning in a Web-based community is used are outlined.

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Hamburg I. (2013). Facilitating Learning and Knowledge Transfer through Mentoring . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 219-222. DOI: 10.5220/0004335702190222


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@conference{csedu13,
author={Ileana Hamburg},
title={Facilitating Learning and Knowledge Transfer through Mentoring},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={219-222},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004335702190222},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Facilitating Learning and Knowledge Transfer through Mentoring
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Hamburg I.
PY - 2013
SP - 219
EP - 222
DO - 10.5220/0004335702190222