Integration of Web 2.0 Tools into Non-Formal Learning Practices: Exploring IBM's Digital Spaces

2. Literature Review And Conceptual Framework

The last decade has been witness to a shift from the individual to the constructive and social aspect of knowledge in the existing epistemologies (Easterby-Smith & Lyles, 2003). Such a direct shift of focus onto the social nature of meaning and practice can result in the redefinition of the organisation itself as a community of practice (CoP), with organisational dimensions that convey meaning to these practices meaning.