Conceptual Model of Successful Educational online Community of Practice for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Main Authors: Fatimah Al-Shahrani, Heba Mohammad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kassel University Press 2014-10-01
• Series: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
• Subjects: Online Communities of Practices; Communities of Practices; Technological Context; Knowledge Management
• Online Access: http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-jet/article/view/3864

The community of practice is an internet application that nourishes knowledge management and innovation. Implementing the community of practice in education can enhance the learning process and make it an enjoyable, exiting and lifelong experience. In this paper, the researchers intend to create a conceptual model for the successful implementation of community of practice in Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through evaluate the literature review about the educational community of practice. Then, a prototype is developed followed by a survey to collect feed-backs about the experiment. Using the Chi-Square statistical method of qualitative analysis associated with the Design Science Methodology of research, the research is fulfilled. The results illustrated the conceptual model of the effective implementation of the community of practice in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that define the seven factors to be considered which are network density, culture perceptions, distributed production, knowledge complexity and richness, government enforcement, IT specialist role, and senior members role.