The workshop focuses on current research trends in technology enhanced learning solutions that aim at addressing the multiplicity and complexity of needs of Communities of Practice all along their lifecycle.
This paper presents a taxonomy of facilitation tasks that have to be carried out to support various COP processes that take place during the different stages in a COP’s life-cycle.
Kevin WATSON and Fran STEELE School of Education College of Arts Education and Social Sciences University of Western Sydney AUSTRALIA E-mail: K.Watson@uws.edu.au Received 5 October, 2005 Revised 19 May, 2006
Calendaring tool allows communities to keep individual and group schedule of events. They can be stand alone applications, or applications that integrate with individual users' tools such as Outook. (NEED BETTER TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION)
Overview of Position: Chevron Corporation is one of the worlds leading energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, and conducting business in approximately 180 countries, the company is engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas indu
Online interaction person. Chocoholic. Now blogaholic. Working to avoid tagaholism. Blog about online community, collaboration, communities of practice, blogging, technology in support of community, interaction and relationship online... And oh! By the wa
Links to Chris Kimble's, research (CMC, CSCW, Knowledge Management, Distributed Teams); teaching (MIS, CIS HI2), and administration (Computer Science, Management)
Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
A CoP is a group of people with a shared goal--to improve their practice. Guided by a facilitator, they "meet" during regularly scheduled conference calls, via a listserv, and in person, when opportunities arise (e.g., the PEJE Assembly). Through this pee
A paper presented at the Second Workshop on Understanding Work and Designing Artefacts: Design for Collaboration. Communities Constructing Technology at King's Manor, University of York (March 1999).
Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”. People are learning together – every individual deals and engage in many different communities of practice. Here people negotiate and
Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”. People are learning together – every individual deals and engage in many different communities of practice. Here people negotiate and
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 1 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with co-located CoPs
Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators: Vol. 2 - contains links to authors and a full introductory chapter - deals with distributed CoPs
This page looks at Communities of Practice as Distributed Collaborative Work and asks (a) are CoPs collaborative and (b) can they be distributed? (Selected and reviwed links to papers on CoPs)
This paper presents a critical review of some of the claims made for CoPs. It will address questions such as "Are CoPs really suitable for use in a business setting?" and "Can a CoP ever be truly virtual?"
Review of "UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS AND IMPACT OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE" by Michael A. Fontaine and David R. Millen, Chapter 1 in Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice
Este capítulo es un análisis reflexivo de dos comunidades complementarias. La primera es una comunidad de práctica formada por un grupo de instructores y desarrolladores educativos, que diseñan, desarrollan e imparten un programa de master a distanc
por Eduardo Lapa* O advento da Internet como meio de comunicação ágil, flexível e de baixo custo, e sua adoção em larga escala pelas organizações e na vida doméstica, foram os propulsores das comunidades virtuais. Grupos de pessoas com interesse
Systemic reform often involves partnerships between multiple communities of practice (CoP). In order to understand the strengths and challenges of a partnership, it is necessary to examine the objectives and practices of the constituent communities and th
Our society has focus on life-long learning, both formal and informal, and this might mean new challenges to the librarians. How do we facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge creation among the users?
Michael Fung-Kee-Fung1,2§, Elena Goubanova2*, Karen Sequeira2*, Arifa Abdulla2*, Rose Cook 2*, Claire Crossley2*, Bernard Langer2*, Andrew J. Smith2*, Hartley Stern1,2*
This paper aims at giving a more detailed description and discussion of two concepts of “community” developed in the research areas of text production/writing and social learning / information management / knowledge sharing and comparing them with ea
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organi
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. Using the evidence from two recent sets of studies, it highlights some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of
La pregunta que me hago es si las CPs se pueden crear desde la Dirección formal de las organizaciones. Mi respuesta es que sí, pero a partir de una serie de consideraciones. En la última reunión del Cluster del Conocimiento (San Sebastián, 1 y 2 de
This Working Paper is the outcome of a short study commissioned by Intercooperation on existing communities of practice (CoPs) in the development sector in India.
This paper reports the findings from a longitudinal case study at University of York, UK. The findings from this study suggest that students and tutors in this programme employed different types and exhibited different degree of social presence when commu
In this study the global Information Systems academic community is viewed as a community of practice in which knowledge is resident but inadequately shared.
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are informal structures and not part of formal management line structures. They comprise members who do similar work, employ similar skills and face similar issues or have some other common interest in the work environment.
ELISA is a successful professional community in Edinburgh, but where does it go next? Wendy Ball suggests that the next stage of development for such groups involves defining your purpose and continuing to question motives.
This study draws on the observations of five instructional designers who discuss their professional identities, their communities of practice and their roles as agents of social and institutional change.
Communities of Practice are conceptually positioned as a very important and successful element of corporate Knowledge Management. By utilizing IT platforms they enable a direct connection of knowledge workers and the transfer and reuse of tacit expertise
in these cities: Houston, Texas, USA Overview of Position: Chevron Corporation is one of the worlds leading energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon, California, and conducting business in approximately 180 countries, the company is engaged in every
This paper examines learning among museum staff involved in exhibition development in four European natural history museums. It draws upon a larger body of research undertaken for the Mirror project, a European Commission Framework Programme 5 Information
C. Kimble, and P. Hildreth. Encyclopaedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey (USA)/London (UK), October 2005.(2005)