Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 2 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with distributed CoPs
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 1 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with co-located CoPs
M. Bos-Ciussi, and G. Rosner. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, 2, chapter 14, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, (2008)