Category Archives: Network of practice

Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World

Patti Anklam provides a guide for leaders and participants to work within and lead purposeful social networks in the world. Awareness of networks and networked organizations has reached the mainstream of the business publishing world, as evidenced in the increasing … Continue reading

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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

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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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From Communities to Networks of Practice Through Intranet Use

Read Communities of practice are highly situated and, yet, networks of practice supposedly connect them. Assuming the situated dimension of work and identity in communities of practice, how may dispersed agents be connected, and how may the features of communities … Continue reading

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Community, economic creativity, and organization

Community, economic creativity, and organization How knowledge is created, and how innovation in products and practices occurs, have been long-standing concerns of socio-economists. This book argues that ‘communities of practice‘, communities and networks of joint enterprise, are the prime site … Continue reading

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Compendium of ICT in Education Networks

Read   This compendium of networks in the field of ICT in education aims at providing stakeholders with a reference, to encourage international and global exchanges and knowledge sharing between organisations sharing similar missions. It identifies the networks active in … Continue reading

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Network of practice – Wikipedia

Network of Practice is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid often abbreviated as NoPs. This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, refers to the overall set of … Continue reading

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