TY - GEN
T1 - Knowledge management for learning
T2 - 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
AU - Collins, Regina
AU - Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
AU - Deek, Fadi P.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based on one of several studies included in a Ph.D. dissertation [5]. We thank the other members of the committee for their valuable contributions to this research. The University of Agder generously provided the second author, who was a Visiting Scientist there, with a travel grant to help support her presentation at HICSS.
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Knowledge management (KM) is an important activity in corporations and organizations and is well suited as a learning activity in higher education. However, integrating such activities for learning requires alignment between required activities and information technology (IT) system affordances. Using KM-based assignments requiring individual and collaborative (group) Internet-based research, this study explores the affordances of two different ITs: one the university's learning management system, and the other a Web 2.0 social digital curation system (Pearltrees). Results suggest that, despite already being familiar with Moodle, students found Pearltrees not complex and generally compatible with their learning activities, although their perceptions were impacted by whether they used Pearltrees for the first or second assignment. Students' comments indicated that mature discussion capabilities and a visual interface with the ability to organize digital resources were some of the most important affordances for tools used in KM learning activities.
AB - Knowledge management (KM) is an important activity in corporations and organizations and is well suited as a learning activity in higher education. However, integrating such activities for learning requires alignment between required activities and information technology (IT) system affordances. Using KM-based assignments requiring individual and collaborative (group) Internet-based research, this study explores the affordances of two different ITs: one the university's learning management system, and the other a Web 2.0 social digital curation system (Pearltrees). Results suggest that, despite already being familiar with Moodle, students found Pearltrees not complex and generally compatible with their learning activities, although their perceptions were impacted by whether they used Pearltrees for the first or second assignment. Students' comments indicated that mature discussion capabilities and a visual interface with the ability to organize digital resources were some of the most important affordances for tools used in KM learning activities.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108185802
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 94
EP - 103
BT - Proceedings of the 50th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
A2 - Sprague, Ralph
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 3 January 2017 through 7 January 2017
ER -