Building knowledge from experience: Reflective thinking as a mediating process for collaborative knowledge building

ACIS 2008 Proceedings - 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 907-917

  Singh, Gurparkash ^a   Whymark, Greg ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity Theory; Collaboration; Knowledge building; Reflective thinking

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE; GROUP ACTIVITIES; KNOWLEDGE BUILDING; MODIFIED MODEL; PROCESS MODEL; REFLECTIVE THINKING; UNIT OF ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 84869144544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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