Background A quality improvement collaborative uses multiple approaches, including coaching, to teach the necessary skills to the change leader in an effort to teach them quality improvement skills and to enhance their knowledge acquisition in order to implement effective organizational changes. However, little is known about the individual teaching and learning styles of the coach or change le...

Judging from the conference programme, the days ahead of us promise to be stimulating and thought-provoking indeed. What I would like to do this morning is to share with you some of my thoughts on the evolution of knowledge acquisition and dissemination in an age which is increasingly mobile and in which technology and technical devices are everywhere, that is to say “ubiquitous”. They are beco...

In this paper dance is used as an application area, as well as a metaphor for studying how to build digital multimedia libraries that comprise moving images accompanied by sound and other media. The use of protocol analysis is suggested as a knowledge acquisition method for eliciting verbal descriptions of dance. Such descriptions may be used to annotate dance videos to facilitate their storage...

Delivering individualized services that conform to the user’s current situation will form the focus of ubiquitous environments. A description of the networked environment at a semantic level will necessitate contextually oriented knowledge acquisition methods. This then engenders unique challenges for the crucial step of resource discovery. A number of service discovery protocols exist to perfo...

Group Support Systems (GSS) technology, extensively applied in decision-making contexts, is now seeing increased application in the educational sector. Previous work has suggested that GSS applications can have significant positive effects on both the process and the outcome of collaborative learning. This study extends this work to examine the effects of process (high/low) and content (high/lo...

Scholars have found contradictory effects of strong ties in interfirm relations. They are considered both beneficial and detrimental for knowledge acquisition and innovation. In consequence, the debate on this paradox is flourishing. We wish to contribute to the discussion using a construct –relational bondingoriginally developed in studies on vertical interfirm relationships in business-to-bus...

The paper describes the results of an e-learning experimental project for Continuous Medical Education (CME) in Occupational Medicine in terms of: extent of the e-learning courses usage by the healthcare personnel, knowledge acquisition and satisfaction. 11 courses have been available for 11 months during which 2,034 users all over Italy enrolled in 5,183 courses with a success percentage of 72...

This chapter examines themost common technologies usedforteaching oncollege campuses and the mostcommon barriers toadvanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show thatthemajor barriers toincorporating technology into higher education are lack offaculty time, faculty doubts about therelevancy oftechnology todisciplinary learning, andinadequate technical supportfor facultyproj...