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Saturday, June 10, 2006
In my role as blogmeister for LCB I've done a lot of reading in the communities of practice literature to gain a better understanding of how online communities work. What causes high quality interaction or community disfunction and collapse. One model I've developed is around the roles and interactions members of a community have as participants in that community. Further influence came from the work What can be done to enhance the community? I thought I'd share my model with the LCB community for feedback and discussion.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The aim of this post is to illustrate the dynamics between a Community of Practice (CoPs) and a Team.
CoPs enable workers to be more effective and capable in their team tasks, by being able to discover people and form cross-functional groups to build their know-how on a topic. What is learnt in a CoP can be applied to tasks.
Without getting too deep into theory here’s an establishing paragraph on what is a Community of Practice.
Communities of Practice typically are a group of people coming together to share and learn about a common interest; as well
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
In the last post in this series we talked about some of the roles that support successful learning communities and CoPs (Communities of Practice). But when we think of these roles in the context of organizations like the e-learning provider UFI Learndirect (for whom this series was originally written), whose strength is providing learning services at a massive scale, some natural tensions are going to emerge. This is the seventh in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
While it may take a village or wider family to raise a child, it takes roles to raise a community. And unless you have endless time or deep pockets to pay someone (or some ONES) these roles have to be distributed across the community. Lets take a look at some possible roles in learning communities or communities of practice. Community Leadership in Learning - bees, mentors, coaches, experts and friends
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick .
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The is the fourth post exploring more about Community, Domain and Practice aspects of CoPs mentioned in the first post of this series on communities of practice (CoPs). CoPs are not about learning things in the abstract. This is why businesses and organizations have been so interested in CoPs — they see them as a way to improve practices in the context of work. This is the fourth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick . I
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
In CoP terms, this is “reification.” We need a means of identifying emerging and related content and weaving it back into the more traditional “course” is a newer role. While we have human bees in platform, particularly in the community context mentioned “across courses” in the last blog post (see cop-series-7-roles-and-scalability/ ), we can use technology to scale human curation. This is the eighth in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick late last year. I
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
First, from a CoP perspective, the platform is NOT the community. If you are trying to foster a CoP, there needs to be attention to both community, domain and practice. the “roles” blog post I talked about the role of Community Technology Steward. Let’s look briefly at each of the parts of this This is the 10th and last in a series of blog posts I wrote for Darren Sidnick about communities of practice in an elearning context late last year. I
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
We sat down with one of the vice-presidents who appear to be the leading informal KM advocate and offered that he take on the role of THE KM champion. CoP portal before community building We helped a loose network of NGOs set up their CoP portal, with the help of Phase 1 money from a donor development institution. was very pleased with our proposal, which described a multi-level learning, CoP and IT-enabled processes. Apin Talisayon’s Weblog – Knowledge Management provides useful TOOLS but it leaves MANY GAPS – Oops! (Learn Learn
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
focused on CoPs in a learning context –> From: Darren Sidnick’s Learning & Technology: Community - because without people, you just have a pile of content. This is the third post surfacing a bit more about Community, Domain and Practice mentioned in the series on communities of practice (CoPs). Here is Wenger’s explanation of Community in the context of CoPs.
Here is the third in a series of guest blogs I did for Darren Sidnick, reblogged here with his blessing!) Or worse… nothing!
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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