%0 Book Section %1 CLEE_2_16 %A Jacobson, Erik %B Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators %C Charlotte, NC %D 2008 %E Kimble, Chris %E Hildreth, Paul %I Information Age Publishing %K Adult_Education Adult_Literacy_Education LPP Legitimate_Peripheral_Participation Mentoring Scalability Web_2.0 Wiki %P 327--346 %T The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice %U http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_16.html %V 2 %X This chapter asks whether a large wiki can be considered a Community of Practice (CoP) and whether or not this is a useful question to ask. The focus of the chapter is the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, an on-going creation of adult basic education teachers, administrators and researchers. The ALE Wiki has a core group of very active contributors, over 700 registered users, and more than 720 pages of content. The chapter includes a description of choices the organizers made when constructing the wiki and how those choices create the potential for the ALE Wiki to create a small CoP at its centre. The chapter uses the concept of CoPs as a heuristic to examine the multi-layered participation structure of the wiki. The conclusion is that while the ALE Wiki as a whole cannot be considered a CoP, the concept is a useful way to identify some of the strengths of the wiki and to note the limitations of working with such a large group. %& 16

@incollection{CLEE_2_16, abstract = {This chapter asks whether a large wiki can be considered a Community of Practice (CoP) and whether or not this is a useful question to ask. The focus of the chapter is the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, an on-going creation of adult basic education teachers, administrators and researchers. The ALE Wiki has a core group of very active contributors, over 700 registered users, and more than 720 pages of content. The chapter includes a description of choices the organizers made when constructing the wiki and how those choices create the potential for the ALE Wiki to create a small CoP at its centre. The chapter uses the concept of CoPs as a heuristic to examine the multi-layered participation structure of the wiki. The conclusion is that while the ALE Wiki as a whole cannot be considered a CoP, the concept is a useful way to identify some of the strengths of the wiki and to note the limitations of working with such a large group.}, added-at = {2008-04-12T22:06:45.000+0200}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Jacobson, Erik}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2bf8923ae9e04a9522fa8d81758511ea1/xckuk}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = 16, description = {CLEE}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, interhash = {691a906b094414015f97d93ce30c7009}, intrahash = {bf8923ae9e04a9522fa8d81758511ea1}, keywords = {Adult_Education Adult_Literacy_Education LPP Legitimate_Peripheral_Participation Mentoring Scalability Web_2.0 Wiki}, pages = {327--346}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, timestamp = {2008-04-12T22:06:46.000+0200}, title = {The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_16.html}, volume = 2, year = 2008 }