Impediments to sharing knowledge outside the school: Lessons learnt from the development of a taxonomic e-learning portal

ICIS 2007 Proceedings - Twenty Eighth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Agarwal, Naresh Kumar ^a   Poo, Danny C C ^a   Tan, Keat Houng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Case Study; E Learning; Educational Content; Fear; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Sharing Hostilities; Learning Objects; Singapore Schools; Trust

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS; FEAR; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LEARNING OBJECTS; SINGAPORE; TRUST;

E-LEARNING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84870963863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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