Interconnection of Communities of Practice: A Web Platform for Knowledge Management.

Elise Garrot-Lavoué (1)

1 LIESP - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour l'Entreprise et les Systèmes de Production

Our works aim at developing a Web platform to connect various Communities of Practice (CoPs) and to capitalise on all their knowledge. This platform addresses CoPs interested in a same general activity, for example tutoring. For that purpose, we propose a general model of Interconnection of Communities of Practice (ICP), based on the concept of Constellation of Practice (CCP) developed by Wenger (1998). The model of ICP was implemented and has been used to develop the TE-Cap 2 platform which has, as its field of application, educational tutoring activities. In particular, we propose an indexation and search tool for the ICP knowledge base. The TE-Cap 2 platform has been used in real conditions. We present the main results of this descriptive investigation to validate this work.

Mots clés: Online tutoring; Interconnection of Communities of Practice; Knowledge Indexation; Contextualised search; Web 2.0; Human-Computer Interface; Online tutoring.

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Education; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Web

Elise Garrot-Lavoué. Interconnection of Communities of Practice: A Web Platform for Knowledge Management.. Firth International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2009), Oct 2009, Madeira, Portugal. pp.13-20. ⟨hal-00652613⟩