Abstract
Many online communities nowadays are emphasized more on peer interactions and information sharing among members; very few online communities are built with knowledge management in nature supported by knowledge management system (KMS). This study aims to present a community of practice on how to effectively adopt a knowledge management system (KMS) to neutralize a cyber collaborative learning community for a research lab in a higher education setting. A longitudinal case for 7 years was used to analyze the retention and extension of participants’ community of practice experiences. Interviews were conducted for the comparison between experiences and theories. It was found that the transformations of tacit and explicit knowledge are in accordance with the framework of Nonaka’s model of knowledge management from which we elicit the strategies and suggestions to the adoption and implementation of virtual collaborative research community supported by KMS.
Highlights
Knowledge management concept has gone through major evolution since the prevalence of computers and the Internet
Many online communities nowadays are more emphasized on peer interactions and information sharing among members; very few online communities are built with knowledge management in nature supported by knowledge management system (KMS) (Su, Zhang, & Hashemi, 2007; Wang, Rabsch, Kling, Peiya, & Pearson, 2007)
We proposed a framework of technology enhanced collaborative research as the guidelines for a research group adopting KMS to neutralize a cyber collaborative learning community for a research lab
Summary
Knowledge management concept has gone through major evolution since the prevalence of computers and the Internet. Informal communication and formal idea exchange can be transformed into collaborative knowledge creation. Collaborative activities such as sharing data and knowledge as well as having discussions around the content create valuable asset for research groups. The benefits of adopting knowledge management system into research arena include the possibilities to represent the data in various formats, and the possibility to manage and scaffold tasks and procedures (Hoadley & Killner, 2005). Such community of practice is enacted in the virtual environment. In order to better facilicating individual knowledge construction, KMS provides such scaffolding framework with asynchronous and synchronous functionalities
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