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Non-governmental organizations often face the challenge that practical knowledge cannot easily be transferred between practitioners with different degrees of expertise, as there is no way of directly observing good practice, and practical knowledge often only exists in implicit form. In this paper, we describe how patterns may be used to support sharing practical knowledge, and based on the co-evolution model by Cress and Kimmerle, we provide a theoretical framework for describing how an exchange of practical knowledge takes place. We present the results of a case study that supports the efficiency of patterns. Patterns facilitate the exchange of good practice by leading to more explicit and understandable descriptions.
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Arnold, F., Moskaliuk, J., Schümmer, T., Cress, U. (2010). Pattern-Mediated Knowledge Exchange in Non-Governmental Organizations. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P.A., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. EC-TEL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_26
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