Web-based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice

Conditions and Key Success Factors for the Management of Communities of Practice
Cultivation Model: A model of evaluation
for communities of practice in the process of
cultivation that makes it possible to estimate the
probabilities of success for the proposal of creating
communities at a specific moment and under
a specific situation is included. The cultivation
and integration of communities is a continuous
process, due to which its evaluation must be
performed periodically.
Knowledge Management: Managing the
corporation’s knowledge through a systematically
and organizationally specified process for acquiring,
organizing, sustaining, applying, sharing and
renewing both the tacit and explicit knowledge of
employees to enhance organizational performance
and create value (Davenport, 1998).
ENDNOTES
1 Lesser and Everest 2001, quoted by Swan,
Scarbrough, and Robertson, 2002.
2 Brown and Duguid, 2001; Orr, 1996, quoted
by Swan, Scarbrough, and Robertson,
2002.
3 Wenger et al., 2002, quoted by Iverson and
McPhee, 2002.
4 Wagner, 2000 quoted by Kakadadse, Kakadadse,
and Kouzmin, 2003.
5 Lesser and Everest 2001:41, quoted by Swan,
Scarbrough, and Robertson, 2002.
6 Orr, 1996, quoted by van Zolingen, Streumer,
and M. Stooker, 2001.
7 Orr, 1996, quoted by van Zolingen, Streumer,
and Stooker, 2001.
8 Stewart, 2001, quoted by Urquhart, Yerman,
and Sharp, 2002.
9 Barab and Duffy, 2000, quoted by Barab;
MaKinster and Scheckler, 2003.
10 Barab, 2001, quoted by Barab; MaKinster
and Scheckler, 2003.
11 Heald, 2004.
12 Roberts identifies also collectivities and
constellations of practice
13 This author differentiate collectivity-ofpractice
from Community of practice
14 Those authors identified different varieties
of knowing in action. The paper notes the
differences - in organisation, spatial dynamics,
innovation outcomes, and knowledge
processes - between four modes: craft or
task-based knowing; epistemic or high
creativity knowing; professional knowing;
and virtual knowing.
This work was previously published in Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and
Workflow Analysis, edited by D. Akoumianakis, pp. 18-41, copyright 2009 by Information Science Reference (an imprint of
IGI Global).
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