AI & SOCIETY

, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp 70–78 | Cite as

Integrating working and learning: Two models of computer support

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Abstract

This paper describes theories and computer systems illustrating two innovative models of computer support for integrating working and learning. TheVdde system illustrates thedesign critiquing model helping individual professionals in analyzing current work situations, applying existing knowledge to these situations, and articulating new knowledge. The SmartMedia system illustrates thedomain construction model helping communities of practice to collaboratively evolve new ways of working.

Keywords

Communities of practice Critiquing Design environments Domain construction Workplace learning 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Knowledge Media InstituteThe Open UniversityMilton KeynesUK
  2. 2.IBM Zurich Research LaboratoryRueschlikonSwitzerland

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