Individuals whose aim is to acquire now knowledge.
Published in Chapter:
Information Technologies' Impact on Individual Learning Process: The Case of a Community of Practice
Manel Guechtouli (ESCEM Business School, France) and Widad Guechtouli (CNRS, France)
Source Title: Handbook of Research on E-Transformation and Human Resources Management Technologies: Organizational Outcomes and Challenges
Copyright: © 2009|Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-304-3.ch021
Abstract
Information Technologies (IT) seem to be affecting individuals and organizations’ communication and behaviors since many years now. This chapter is about understanding the possible impact of IT on the process of individual learning in a community of practice; in other words the authors wonder if those technologies can possibly help increasing individual competencies in order to improve their learning. They will specifically compare communication in two IT (the email and the web forum) by using agentbased simulation. Results show that each technology has a different impact on individual learning and that communication through emails appear to make individuals learn slower than on a Web forum. Conclusions are widely discussed.
