Communities of practice: bridging technology and knowledge assessment

Introduces an assessment model being developed around a knowledge initiative in Pepperdine University’s Educational Technology Doctoral program ( http://moon.pepperdine.edu/gsep/programs/ET ). The knowledge initiative involves the implementation of group memory technology, developed by Intraspect Software ( http://www.intraspect.com ), in an attempt to cultivate a community of practice in the program. The assessment model looks for indicators of communities of practice and mines for usage patterns called “knowledge transactions”, as forms of measures.