CSCL for NGO's cross cultural virtual teams in Africa: an Ethiopian children advocacy case study against exclusion and toward facilitation of expression, innovation and creativity

Klein, Rody R.; Letaief, R.; Carter, S.; Chabert, Ghislaine; Lasonen, Johanna; Lubart, Todd

doi:10.1109/icalt.2005.97

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“…Parker and Chao (2007) conducted a collaborative learning activity in which Wiki was used as a web communication and collaboration environment to engage students in innovative thinking tasks. Klein and Letaief (2005) found that collaboration is an important element to facilitate innovative thinking of elementary school students in a creative Art course. They indicated that the collaborative platform needs to facilitate asynchronous systematic conceptions and sharing of intra-and cross-organizational information such that students are situated in a synergistic, creative and innovative learning environment.…”

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A mindtool-based collaborative learning approach to enhancing students' innovative performance in management courses

Hwang

Kuo

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Educators have indicated that creative teaching is the most important educational activity; nevertheless, most existing education systems fail to engage students in effective creative tasks. To address this issue, this study proposes a mind map based collaborative learning approach for supporting creative learning activities and enhancing students' innovative performance. An experiment has been conducted on a university management course to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly enhanced the students' innovative performance in a project-based learning task. Such a finding not only provides evidence of the cultivability of innovative thinking, but also good references for those researchers who are interested in conducting creative learning activities.

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Section: Creativity and Collaborative Learningmentioning

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A mindtool-based collaborative learning approach to enhancing students' innovative performance in management courses

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et al. 2013

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“…Similarly, Rohde supported Iranian NGOs in fostering their social capital by means of a shared workspace application and its introduction process [46]. Furthermore, Klein et al have helped NGOs working for child rights in Africa by designing a learning environment for sharing ideas and best practices [47]. Matschke et al have chalked out requirements to optimally use web 2.0 technologies for knowledge exchange process in non-governmental organizations [48].…”

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Nomadic Knowledge Sharing Practices and Challenges: Findings From a Long-Term Case Study

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In this paper, we explore a specialized type of knowledge, namely, nomadic knowledge, to understand its implications in knowledge sharing. Nomadic knowledge is enacted in a discontinuous pattern with a changing set of actors and further flows on a defined trajectory. This knowledge is quite important but is required sporadically, so it has a varying level of importance for stakeholders at different instances of time. The limited interest of knowledge holders after the creation of this type of knowledge makes its sharing process complex. Furthermore, new sets of actors overloaded with tasks often ignore the knowledge sharing aspect of nomadic knowledge due to the urgency of the tasks at hand. Using a long-term field study, we illustrate practices concerning the sharing of nomadic knowledge, which, we argue, are to date not yet well supported technologically. The objective of this contribution is, therefore, to outline the concept of nomadic knowledge and associated implications, so that respective knowledge sharing practices can be supported by the knowledge management community with appropriate technology. The underlying complexity of knowledge sharing practices highlighted in this paper stresses the need for appropriate technological and social processes to facilitate the sharing of nomadic knowledge.INDEX TERMS Knowledge management, knowledge sharing, international collaboration, knowledge engineering, organizational aspects.

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“…Rohde (2003) and Rohde (2004) designed Communities of Practice Concept, to electronically network the Iran community. Moreover, Klein et al (2005) presented a computer supported cooperative learning environment for NFPOs to enable them share their ideas and best practices.…”

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Challenging factors of it potency in self-helped not-for-profit-organisations: A case study of Edo State Women Association

Hopkins¹

2019

AFRREV STECH: Int J. Sci and Technol

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Information Technology (IT) strategies are intensifying with non-stop expedition to encourage, design and improve its utilization in Not-for-Profit Organisations (NFPOs), as well as strategically facilitate enhanced operation's performance and achievement of set goals. Regrettably, achieving and elevating IT potency in some NFPOs has been a difficult mission over the years, even with the affordability and availability of some IT strategies, as the case of self-helped NFPOs. This research carried out an eight-year empirical and ethnographic study on the Nigeria operations of a self-helped NFPO, Edo State Women Association (ESWA), utilizing interview, observation; convenience and purposive sampling, narrative and thematic analysis methods. The data analysis led to the identification of five (5) key IT potency challenging factors associated with several social, economic and physical issues faced by ESWA: Users', IT Strategy, Location, Access, Security and Maintenance. The interrelations that exist between these IT potency challenging factors are presented and elaborated. The findings suggest that there is still major work to be done in bridging the IT potency gap that exists between well-structured or well-funded and self-helped NFPOs. The research recommends that additional provisions be considered by social responsibility and IT potency role players for the sustainability of self-helped NFPO's projects and operations.

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CSCL for NGO's cross cultural virtual teams in Africa: an Ethiopian children advocacy case study against exclusion and toward facilitation of expression, innovation and creativity

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

A mindtool-based collaborative learning approach to enhancing students' innovative performance in management courses

A mindtool-based collaborative learning approach to enhancing students' innovative performance in management courses

Nomadic Knowledge Sharing Practices and Challenges: Findings From a Long-Term Case Study

Challenging factors of it potency in self-helped not-for-profit-organisations: A case study of Edo State Women Association

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