Web-based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice

Supporting Communities of Practice by Advancing Knowledge Management
Figure 4. Example of the integration of Compendium (top image) and CoPe_it! (bottom image)
on line discussion. As we can see in Figure 5,
nodes, pictures and images that were represented
in Compendium maps (i.e. the representation of
the organizations involved in the TG project, or
claims raised from community members in previous
face-to-face meetings) have been imported
in CoPe_it! workspace and discussed from the
community members at distance through CoPe_it!
As Moderators of the on-line community we have
also assisted farmers to directly engage in the use
of the tool. After that an evaluation questionnaire
has been distributed to the participants in order
to test CoPe_it! perceived usefulness and ease of
use. Moreover general question on the tool has
been made like: What would you use this tool for
in your organization? What did you like dislike?
How would you improve it?
Reactions have been favorable but they also
show that the agricultural community of Torre
Guaceto is probably not ready to use ICT tools as a
mean to discuss and communicate CoP issues. As
admitted from one of the participants they “prefer
personal interaction and communication out of
any structured protocol”. Torre Guaceto is a small
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