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Activists: Communities of Practice, Cultural Dialogism, and Radical Knowledge Sharing
This study explored innovative alternative processes of living, learning, and knowledge sharing of a loosely knit community of anarchist, anticapitalist “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) activists. Generated through participant observation and interviews, findings reinforced adult education theories—that adults can diagnose their own learning … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Adult education, CoP, Social learning, Social movements
Tagged activism, adult education, cop, social learning
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Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice
Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It … Continue reading
Posted in CoP, Social learning, Social learning systems
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Collaborative Environments to Foster Creativity, Reuse and Sharing of OER
The popularity of ICT within teachers has operated a shift between an individual way of producing resources to be used in class and a social way of doing it. Nowadays teachers do not have to be passive users, but reflective … Continue reading
Posted in CoP, Creative pedagogy, Creative thinking, Creativity, OER, Pedagogy, Social creativity
Tagged cop, creative thinking, creativity, OER, pedagogy, social creativity
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Creativity: Interview with George Pór
Read George Pór, co-founder of CommunityIntelligence Ltd, a London-based transformation agency, the hub of an international network of consultants collaborating on larger projects. George is a pioneer of using social media for developing such strategic organizational capabilities as collaborative work … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperation, CoP, Creative collaboration, Creative organization, Creative team, Creativity
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On the importance of social capital in knowledge sharing within virtual communities of practice
Read The development of social capital is an important piece towards fostering knowledge sharing in these groups. In other words, a cohesive, functioning community must develop. And members must trust one another. It makes sense, right? Social capital can bridge … Continue reading
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge – Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice
Read In Silicon Valley, a community of circuit designers meets for a lively debate about the merits of two different designs developed by one of the participants. Huddling together over the circuit diagrams, they analyze possible faults, discuss issues of … Continue reading
Connecting with Communities of Practice
Read This month, The Learning Circuits blog asks how do we break down organizational walls when it comes to learning? One way to look at this problem is to see what kind of work needs to get done in the … Continue reading
Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks – a conceptual framework
Read This publication is about value creation in communities and networks. It is a foundation paper presenting a framework for promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks and aims to be sufficiently rigorous for researchers, useful for practitioners … Continue reading
Posted in Community, CoP, Learning, Learning communities, Learning network, Network of practice, Networks
Tagged cop, Learning, learning communities, learning networks, networks
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Frameworks for understanding the nature of interactions, networking, and community in a social networking site for academic practice
Read This paper describes a new social networking site, Cloudworks, which has been developed to enable discussion and sharing of learning and teaching ideas/designs and to promote reflective academic practice. The site aims to foster new forms of social and … Continue reading
Posted in Activity theory, Connectivism, CoP, Social network, Web 2.0
Tagged Activity theory, connectivism, cop, social networks, web2.0
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Interconnecting Networks of Practice for Professional Learning
The article explores the complementary connections between communities of practice and the ways in which individuals orchestrate their engagement with others to further their professional learning. It does so by reporting on part of a research project conducted on teachers’ … Continue reading
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