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Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community

Knowledge sharing among students is important, especially when students are working in groups. In practice, however, this is not easy to achieve, especially in a multicultural environment. Knowledge sharing should be promoted to students who are learning about knowledge management. This paper descri...

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Main Authors: Sie, Bing, Aho, Anne Maria, Uden, Lorna
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2014
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H Social Sciences (General)
T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://ur.aeu.edu.my/543/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7308-0_12
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spelling my-aeu-eprints.5432019-06-30T01:44:11Z http://ur.aeu.edu.my/543/ Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community Sie, Bing Aho, Anne Maria Uden, Lorna H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Knowledge sharing among students is important, especially when students are working in groups. In practice, however, this is not easy to achieve, especially in a multicultural environment. Knowledge sharing should be promoted to students who are learning about knowledge management. This paper describes our experience of teaching a knowledge management course for undergraduate students earning their Bachelor’s degrees at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The students participating in the course came from multicultural backgrounds. From our observations, we found there were many barriers to knowledge sharing among the students. It is our belief that Communities of Practice would help students to overcome these barriers and thus be better equipped to share knowledge. This paper is the introduction to an in-progress research proposal about how to apply Communities of Practice for knowledge sharing among students in a multicultural learning community. 2014 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Sie, Bing and Aho, Anne Maria and Uden, Lorna (2014) Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community. In: The 2nd International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7308-0_12
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
T Technology (General)
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Sie, Bing
Aho, Anne Maria
Uden, Lorna
Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community
description Knowledge sharing among students is important, especially when students are working in groups. In practice, however, this is not easy to achieve, especially in a multicultural environment. Knowledge sharing should be promoted to students who are learning about knowledge management. This paper describes our experience of teaching a knowledge management course for undergraduate students earning their Bachelor’s degrees at Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The students participating in the course came from multicultural backgrounds. From our observations, we found there were many barriers to knowledge sharing among the students. It is our belief that Communities of Practice would help students to overcome these barriers and thus be better equipped to share knowledge. This paper is the introduction to an in-progress research proposal about how to apply Communities of Practice for knowledge sharing among students in a multicultural learning community.
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author Sie, Bing
Aho, Anne Maria
Uden, Lorna
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Uden, Lorna
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title Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community
title_short Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community
title_full Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community
title_fullStr Communities of Practice as an Improvement Tool for Knowledge Sharing in a Multi-Cultural Learning Community
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url http://ur.aeu.edu.my/543/
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