ExpertCommons
Created By: boatsie
Last Modified: 01/10/06
Summary: Are you an "expert?" Join this emergent digital community to participate in guided discussion on defining expretise. What's your area of expertise? What characteristics of an expert do you possess? And how can you see 'modifing' your world to assist you in becoming an expert. In today's evolving online communities, everyone is an expert ... about something. But this ain't exactly so. In a
constellation
of jetpaks, i explore how expertise is defined by neuroscience and emergent models of learning, and how online communities can be successfully structured to subtly engage users in active learning and the relevant application of their knowledge.
To follow the progress of this presentation , click through tags sequenced expert2, expert3, and so on.
Part 1: Characteristics of an Expert
6. Experts have varying levels of flexibility in their approach to new situations.
5. Though experts know their disciplines thoroughly, this does not guarantee that they are able to teach others.
Summary: Gandhi and Nehru
From: http://www.biografiasyvidas.com4. Experts are able to flexibly retrieve important aspects of their knowledge with little attentional effort.
Summary: NOT!
From: http://www.funnyhub.com3. Experts' knowledge cannot be reduced to sets of isolated facts or propositions but, instead, reflects contexts of applicability: that is, the knowledge is "conditionalized" on a set of circumstances.
Summary: Post Modern architect Frank Gehry
From: http://cv.uoc.es2. Experts have acquired a great deal of content knowledge that is organized in ways that reflect a deep understanding of their subject matter.
1. Experts notice features and meaningful patterns of information that are not noticed by novices.
