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. Tool = File sharing, Content management system, Podcast and vodcast tools, Photo sharing tools 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

This photo is from the vodcast I did with her afterwards. In the case of a session with a mature CoP- the answers would likely be close Sarah Cummings blogged about the masterclass with Nancy Dixon we both attended. Reading Sarah's ideas, I thought it would be nice to blog my own. First of all it is so different to attend a master class as compared

In the vodcast with Nancy Dixon , she said that the theory of communities of practice derived from various anthropological studies and hence is not a Western concept. When I work in Ghana I am conscious of the fact that I don't know the context as a Ghanaian would and try to give different options when I propose something and ask for ideas and feedback. During the tech forum in Ghana I did a presentation on communities of practice and we asked for questions and examples of CoPs in Ghana. Afterwards we discussed whether the concept may have touched upon some universal principles of learning, which might also explain why it has become such a popular concept.