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?"
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)