Designing social media for informal learning and knowledge maturing in the digital workplace

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 235-249

  Ravenscroft, A ^a   Schmidt, A ^b   Cook, J ^c   Bradley, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context; Design based research; Formative evaluation; Informal learning; Knowledge maturing; Work based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861207591     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2012.00485.x     Document Type: Article

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