The 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

This paper is a comparative review of four seminal works on communities of practice. It is
argued that the ambiguities of the terms community and practice are a source of the …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

Scientific collaboration is increasing in frequency and importance. It has the potential to
solve complex scientific problems and promote various political, economic, and social …

Information literacy has thus far been mostly a practical and strategic concept guiding the
library field's efforts in teaching information seeking and using skills. Texts on information …

Gatekeeping refers broadly to the process of controlling information as it moves through a
gate or filter (Barzilai-Nahon, in press) and is associated with exercising different types of …

The increasing complexity of organizations, together with the growing scale of information
activities, puts new demands on business corporations. It is believed that investing in social …

This paper draws on findings from an in-depth case study of practices related to the meeting
of organizational goals pertinent to knowledge creation, creativity and innovation …

The traditional humanistic concept of individuals is as the originators of knowledge and of
the growth of knowledge and human mental powers as processes initiating from the …

This paper brings to the fore a cohort of student teachers' perceptions of an online learning
experience during school placement in a Chinese tertiary institution; it critically explores …