Sergio Vasquez Bronfman

ESCP Business School · Information and Operations Management

Videogames and Simulations (V&S) are a hot topic in learning and education. A substantial amount of research and experiments had been done in the last ten years, which grows every month and every year. In this paper, I explore the field of V&S by focusing on its added value for learning. Building on the work of done by James Paul Gee and his collea...

Resumen Las comunidades de práctica son hoy un concepto importante en aprendizaje y gestión del conocimiento, no sólo a nivel de investigación, sino también de proyectos en empresas. Este artículo presenta el origen de las comunidades de práctica, define el concepto y describe sus principales características, tratando luego sus relaciones con la ge...

Resumen Las comunidades de práctica son hoy un concepto importante en aprendizaje y gestión del conocimiento, no sólo a nivel de investigación, sino también de proyectos en empresas. Este artículo presenta el origen de las comunidades de práctica, define el concepto y describe sus principales características, tratando luego sus relaciones con la ge...

This paper describes the development of an informal learning experience in a Spanish public administration. We start by discussing the concept of informal learning, stressing the importance of this kind of learning as performance support in the workplace, and linking it to other concepts of learning like reflection-inaction. We then describe the ev...

This chapter introduces some ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger and how they can be applied to e-learning design. It argues that heideggerian thinking (in particular the interpretation done by Hubert Dreyfus) can inspire innovations in e-learning design and implementation by putting practice at the center of knowledge creation, which...

Information Technologies (IT) open many possibilities in education, and e-learning projects are nowadays implemented in many universities and corporate settings. However, the huge majority of these projects fail. This is especially true in professional education and corporate training. We believe that focus on technology (technocentrism) and on 'co...

In the field of professional, continuous, and corporate education (PCCE)37 there is a recurrent complaint concerning the effectiveness of the educational process (Mintzberg, 1988; Mintzberg, 1996; Schön, 1983). Effectiveness is “the ability of a system to produce what it must produce.” Therefore, in an effective PCCE system people should learn to d...

Business education has long been suffering from a gap between theory taught and daily professional practice (Schön, 1983; Schön, 1987; Mintzberg, 1988; Mintzberg, 1996; Spinosa, Flores & Dreyfus, 1997). As a business school professor I am committed in my research and practice to bridge this gap. I think that our professional activity is an opportun...