Who exactly is the moderator? A consideration of online knowledge management network moderation in educational organisations

Computers and Education

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 304-312

  Gairín Sallán, Joaquín ^a   Rodríguez Gómez, David ^a   Armengol Asparó, Carme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Computer mediated communication; Knowledge management; Moderator

Indexed keywords

ACCELERA; COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL AGENTS; KEY ELEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY; LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MANAGEMENT MODEL; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL FACTOR;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MODERATORS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 77949913456     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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