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Knowledge Architecture (Free and in Flow) in a Social Network
This event took place on Monday 03 September 2012 at 11:00

 
Izabel Meister Mackenzie University, So Paulo, Brazil


This presentation is an overview of my PhD research related to the OpenScout project and developed during my visiting research internship at KMi. It is a working in progress. It aims to discuss a virtual social network as a knowledge space. The research field focuses on  the Colearn community. It is a Portuguese language community (Brazil, Spain, Portugal and England) interested in educational technologies whose some members are participating in the OpenScout - Tool Library social network. The OpenScout - Tool Library, developed in KMi,  is a space for communities sharing stories and tools for adapting OER. My research focuses  on the process of sharing and acquiring knowledge through a network of practice.  



 
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Knowledge Management is...


Knowledge Management
Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
Our aim is to capture, analyse and organise knowledge, regardless of its origin and form and make it available to the learner when needed presented with the necessary context and in a form supporting the learning processes.