Appreciative inquiry for community engagement in Indonesia rural communities

Using Appreciative Inquiry for Information Systems Research

Qualitative research methods are gaining popularity among Information System (IS) researchers (Myers, 1997). Among the various qualitative methods, action research (AR) is considered both effective and controversial. Action research as a methodology is becoming more common in the IS research field, although its validity is sometimes questioned (Baskerville & Wood-Harper, 1996; Myers, 1997). One...

Appreciative inquiry in software process improvement

Traditionally, SPI has been approached from a problem-oriented perspective commonly using models such as the IDEAL and the DMAIC. In contrast, appreciative inquiry is a strength-based approach focusing on bringing forward the best in people and organizations to achieve successful change. While there is significant research on SPI initiatives and the use of problem-oriented approaches there is l...

Inquiry into ‘Communities of Inquiry’: knowledge, communication, presence, community

Bolstering Knowledge Management Systems with Appreciative Inquiry

Both Knowledge Management and Appreciative Inquiry attempt to amplify human and organizational capacities by leveraging the best of each. Whereas knowledge management systems aim to help identifying the substantive organizational knowledge in its broadest sense and leveraging it to benefit the organization and its stakeholders, the appreciative inquiry methodology is also about the search for t...

Social Engagement In An Online Community Of Inquiry

This paper examines a multidimensional set of learning-engagement behaviors by students participating in a community of inquiry. Existing social-inquiry models of learning focus on students achieving shared understanding through solving well-structured problems. These models may not be appropriate for professionally-oriented, graduate online education where students derive distributed and parti...