Knowledge and learning

12 important questions on Knowledge and learning

What are the three levels of knowledge?

-knowledge that: a fact
-knowledge how: deeper understanding of how that fact can be used in context.
-knowledge of: acquaintance knowledge, familiarity.

What is experiential learning?

Learning that comes from experiences and reflecting on those experiences. Takes us from surface learning (learn a list of facts) to deep learning (understand knowledge in its context and from our own experience)

What are learning styles?

Ways in which different individuals approach learning and learn more effectively.
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What is a reflective practice?

A form of professional development and training where workers reflect on actual workplace experiences and events.

What is organizational knowledge?

Knowledge that is a collective property of an organization rather than belonging to an individual.

What is situated knowledge?

Knowledge that exists in a dynamic form in interactions between people in specific organizational contexts.

What is a learning organization?

An organization that is set up so as to facilitate continual learning at individual and organizational levels.

What are communities of practice?

Social groupings that are based around a common occupational practice and set of knowledge and that develop and share that knowledge among themselves.

What are the stages of Kolb's learning cycle (experiental learning)?

-concrete experience (doing/having an experience)
-reflective observation (reviewing/reflecting on the experience)
-abstract conceptualization (concluding/learning from the experience)
-active experimentation (planning/trying out what has been learned)

What are Blackler's five facets of organizational knowledge?

1. Embrained knowledge (explicit and individual)
2. Embodied knowledge (individual and tacit)
3. Encultured knowledge (organizational with tacit and explicit dimensions)
4. Embedded knowledge (organizational with tacit and explicit dimensions)
5. Encoded knowledge (organizational and explicit)

What are the four types of knowledge transfer in Nonaka's knowledge-creating company?

1. From explicit to explicit: combination
2. From explicit to tacit: internalization
3. From tacit to explicit: externalization, articulation
4. From tacit to tacit: socialization

What are Senge's five characteristics of the learning organization?

1. Personal mastery
2. Mental models
3. Shared vision
4. Team learning
5. Systems thinking

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