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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward. At the same time The Partnership for 21st Century Skills first report (2002), advocated, “To cope with the demands of the 21st century, people need to know more than core subjects.

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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This knowledge base, formed through previous educational encounters, personal experiences, and cultural background, significantly influences how learners perceive, process, and integrate new information. From a broader perspective, this discussion about prior knowledge also underscores the need for personalized learning approaches.

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Distributed knowledge in the workplace

Connecting 2 the World

Each type of knowledge was manifested, accessed, created, and valued differently at the individual, group, and organizational level. Spatial knowledge is the most valuable for knowledge based organizations. This can be seen in corporations where everyone, yet no one owns the knowledge. Buchanan, R.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

The group process becomes the structure within which content and tacit knowledge, in the form of expected levels of application of the content, are defined. It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002).

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Knowledge Genres

Connecting 2 the World

However, access to social and knowledge networks can create social spaces that allow for the creation of knowledge for distributed groups or individual members in the future. 1998; Sternberg & Horvath, 1999).

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Transactional and Negotiated knowledge

Connecting 2 the World

As explained in the previous section, knowledge of perceived value often were used as currency within the power structure, with study participants sharing, accessing resources, or withholding their knowledge based on their analysis of situational factors within the environment. Phillip, interview 1).

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Study Findings

Connecting 2 the World

So the greater level of ownership that an individual feels towards a project or piece of work, the more likely they will align that work to personal values and knowledge. Knowledge can be part of the network internal to the group, external to the group, within the profession, internal to the organization and external to the organization.

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