Sustainable informal IT learning in community-based nonprofits

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3435-3440

  Kase, Sue E ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Carroll, John M ^a   Rosson, Mary Beth ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal learning; Nonprofits; Participatory design

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORIES; INFORMAL LEARNING; MANAGEMENT PROCESSES; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; NONPROFITS; ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNINGS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; SOCIAL SERVICES; TECHNOLOGY LEARNINGS;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS; EDUCATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57049157696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1358628.1358870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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