Authors:
Cláudia Fernandes
and
Luís Rocha
Affiliation:
Technological Center for the Metal Working Industry – CATIM, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Communities of Practice, Value Networks, Collaborative Learning, Knowledge Management, Value Creation, Innovation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Communities of Interest
;
Communities of Practice
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Social Networks and Organizational Culture
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
This paper will discuss how an ongoing experience on collaborative learning in the industry field that aligns
with the principles of a community of practice and how technology is used to support the learning and
development processes. It is a conceptual analysis that is grounded on theoretical frames and that will
provide the audience with opportunities to further reflect on learning communities. The authors present the
main results and experiences from the use of knowledge networks. They start by comparing the community
with pre-existing models, e.g. “Communities of Practice (CoP)” (Wenger & Snyder, 2000) and “Knowledge
networks” (Büchel & Raub, 2002). The work is based on one on-going experience in the industry/services
field, directly with Portuguese Technical Commissions (PTC), and it has several outputs such as new norms
and directives elaboration, norm projects voting, working papers, norms translation (quality system), etc.
There are over 204 persons involved in the 8
PTC managed by Technological Centre for the Metal Working
Industry (CATIM) from several different organizations, technological centres, institutes, and universities.
The final result is the value creation between the participants that sometimes enables practice rethinking and
innovative processes. With the discussion of the experience we aim to contribute to further reflection and
analysis of this emerging reality.
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