For the pedagogically sensitive trainer or teacher or researcher, TourBar transforms the web into an educational resource. As such, it is a significant addition to the CoWorking toolkit. Knowledge travels through language and every conversation is an experiment in knowledge creation testing ideas, trying out words and concepts. Continuing conversation through daily work activities continually builds both tacit and explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is the wealth of know-how that resides in people s heads, deeply rooted in their life experience and learning.
Explicit knowledge is that which gets deliberately shared, documented and communicated.
Many people in the knowledge field insist that there is no knowledge outside of people. Externalized knowledge, they claim, is only information. No database or technology system can fully capture and distribute all the knowledge that floats around a company nor should it. Knowledge cannot be separated from the communities that create it, use it, and transform it. In all types of knowledge work, even where technology is very helpful, people require conversation, experimentation, and shared experiences with other people who do what they do.