How can we accelerate dissemination of knowledge and learning?: developing an online knowledge management platform for networked improvement communities

Abstract

The Networked Improvement Learning and Support (NILS) platform is an online tool designed to accelerate the initiation and development of Networked Improvement Communities in a disciplined manner. Its main goal is to promote social, organizational learning through curation and synthesis and tacit to explicit knowledge conversion to facilitate knowledge construction and ownership by the communities regarding improvement practice in education. In this proposal we will discuss the NILS platform, a few use cases, and a plan of analytics development that advances knowledge dissemination and monitors the health status of networks.