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Communities of Practice Griff Richards, PhD Manager, Educational Technology and Learning Resources AFRICAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY ACEP , Nairobi, 2013
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Communities of practice
- 1. Communities of Practice Griff Richards, PhD Manager, Educational Technology and Learning Resources ACEP, Nairobi, 15 November 2013
- 2. KEY IDEAS 1. No one knows as much as everyone 2. The currency of a community is its shared resources and knowledge 3. A community supports shared goals 4. You can belong to many communities 5. Communities have a life cycle
- 3. XeroX Copier Repairmen (Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger) • Morning coffee meetings • Share client stories • Share technical trouble-shooting 1. Informal structure 2. Removes worker isolation 3. Promotes social cohesion 4. Both social and task focused
- 4. Communities are important • They connect people • They provide a shared context • Enable dialogue • Stimulate learning • Capture & share knowledge • Encourage collaboration • Help people organize • Generate new knowledge
- 6. VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Balance different communications methods to meet the needs of the members
- 7. VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Relationships Learning Action Knowledge Leaders Technical structures Members
- 10. 60oN 49oN Distance Learning In Alberta-North -DE Consortium of six colleges and Athabasca University. Population 1M people but .9M in cities, and only 42,000 above 60 N Latitude.
- 12. Alberta-North area -Sparse population -51% aboriginal -85 Community Access Points to internet
- 13. NORTHERN LEARNING CENTRES • Clustering of formal learners • Mentoring by elders and leaders • Communities of informal learning • Scaffold internet skills for e-commerce, e-government and e-health • Coordinators / technical assistants
- 14. VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Relationships Learning Action Knowledge Technical structures Skype E-mail F2F & Elluminate calls Sub-group forums Calendaring Repository Even with limited bandwidth the core of the community support structure is communications to support relationships, work and planning collaborations.
- 15. VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Relationship s Learning Action Knowledge Leaders ? ? ? ? Technical structures Skype Moodle Forum F2F & Online Workshops Elluminate Community Marketing & Learner Support Notes File storage Members ? ? ? ? Different tools for different community roles
- 16. Team Chat: Your ODeL Community 1. What communities of practice do you belong? 2. How do they help you with your practice? 3. Are they growing or slowing? 4. How could a community of practice help launch ODeL at your institution? 5. What technology tools would you use?
- 17. REFERENCES . Cultivating communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston:Harvard Business School Press. Wenger, E., McDermott, R. & Snyder, W. (2002) . Community of Practice Design Guide: A step-by-step guide for designing & cultivating communities of practice in higher education. (http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/nli0531.pdf) Cambridge, D., Kaplan, S. & Suter, V. (2005)
- 18. SOME COMMUNITIES? • Open u of sudan – DE community • TESSA • AVU • MALI – comm pratice open and distance ALSO a community for multimedia learning • Facebook