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This chapter presents a strategy for collaborative knowledge modelling between experts and novices in order to support the transfer of expertise within organisations. The use of an object-typed knowledge modelling software tool called MOT is advocated, to elaborate knowledge models in small groups composed of experienced and less experienced employees within organisations. A knowledge model is similar to a concept map, except that it is based on a typology of links and knowledge objects. This technique is used to help experts externalise their knowledge pertaining to concepts, principles, procedures and facts related to their work and to support the sharing of knowledge with novice employees. This chapter presents the rationale behind this strategy, the tool used, the applications of this method and the manner in which it can be integrated into a global knowledge management strategy within organisations.
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Represented by the icon [Image] attached to knowledge objects developed further in a sub-model.
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The term “declarative” when applied to the term “knowledge” comprises two different meanings which are often confused. In a first sense, all knowledge that is overtly “verbalised” (that is, expressed with words) is said to have a declarative format. In a second sense, the term “declarative” defines a specific type of knowledge (declarative knowledge), that is, knowledge about objects and on properties of objects (the know-what), as opposed to “procedural” knowledge or knowledge on actions (the know-how). Procedural knowledge can then be represented in a declarative format.
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This research project is supported by the CEFRIO (Centre francophone de recherche sur l’informatisation des organisations), which is a liaison and transfer centre that comprises university, industrial and governmental members and researchers in Quebec, Canada.
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Two other groups recently participated in the study.
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MISA is a French acronym (Méthode d’Ingénierie d’un Système d’Apprentissage), which stands for “Engineering Method for Learning Systems”.
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IMS-LD is a standardized language used for the specification of e-learning instructional scenarios (LD stands for “Learning Design”). These scenarios are machine-readable: they can be delivered on different elearning platforms that are compliant with IMS-LD.
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Basque, J., Paquette, G., Pudelko, B., Leonard, M. (2014). Collaborative Knowledge Modelling with a Graphical Knowledge Representation Tool: A Strategy to Support the Transfer of Expertise in Organisations. In: Okada, A., Buckingham Shum, S., Sherborne, T. (eds) Knowledge Cartography. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6470-8_22
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