Improving Organizational Learning: Defining Units of Learning from Social Tools

Autor/inn/en	Menolli, André Luís Andrade; Reinehr, Sheila; Malucelli, Andreia
Titel	Improving Organizational Learning: Defining Units of Learning from Social Tools
Quelle	In: Informatics in Education, 12 (2013) 2, S.273-290 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1648-5831
Schlagwörter	Social Networks; Computer Mediated Communication; Resource Units; Computer Software; Workplace Learning; Knowledge Management; Employees; Professional Development; Design; Experiments; Hypothesis Testing; Undergraduate Students; Questionnaires; Program Effectiveness; Teamwork; Problem Solving + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Computerkonferenz; Wissensmanagement; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Erprobung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Fragebogen; Problemlösen
Abstract	New technologies, such as social networks, wikis, blogs and other social tools, enable collaborative work and are important facilitators of the social learning process. Many companies are using these types of tools as substitutes for their intranets, especially software development companies. However, the content generated by these tools in many cases is not appropriately organized. Therefore, this information is often not accessed by the company. Learning objects and units of learning are two e-learning concepts that allow content to be organized in a suitable sequence, thus improving its learning and reuse. Therefore, an approach is proposed to generate learning objects and units of learning from social tools in order to organize information for easy reuse. To evaluate the proposed approach, an experimental study was conducted and subjected to discursive textual analysis. The results show that the approach is viable for improving organizational learning in software development teams. Furthermore, the approach is efficient, especially in terms of the acquisition of new knowledge. It also helps to maintain the organizational pattern and minimize the reinvention of solutions and the repetition of errors. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Vilnius University Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Akademjos str. 4, Vilnius LT 08663 Lithuania. Tel: +37-5-21-09300; Fax: +37-5-27-29209; e-mail: info@mii.vu.lt; Web site: http://www.mii.lt/informatics_in_education/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01