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The Case for Communities of Practice

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

In his 2001 book Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain describes how he became a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice. Have you assessed who might form natural communities?

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Extreme Times

Clark Quinn

At the time, our commentary was largely reacting to the crash of the internet bubble circa 2001. Here it means going further, with everyone being active in their community of practice and actively monitoring trends in related fields for implications to improve practice. And have support for unanticipated struggles!

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Profile of a learning architect: Charles Jennings

Clive on Learning

Charles Jennings originally went in to Reuters (now Thomson Reuters), the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, in 2001 as a consultant, tasked with drawing up a new learning and development strategy. To embed best practice processes in all l&d activities across the company.

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Workscaping, 4 of n

Jay Cross

The book Kitchen Confidential (Harper, 2001) by Anthony Bourdain describes how he become a professional chef and how he continues to support the community of professional chefs. Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice. Professional Development. It was like truffles.

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Top 25 Posts and 4 Hot Topics in January - Best of eLearning Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

trainingwreck , January 23, 2010 Since 2001, Microsoft has sold well over 100 million licenses of SharePoint generating more than $1 billion / year in revenue. As workers co-develop emergent processes they need to be supported through updated information, tools and processes to do their work. Then, as I was.

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e-Learning: In Search of a Better Definition

Big Dog, Little Dog

On the other hand, Marc Rosenberg confines it to the internet in his book, e-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age (2001): e-Learning refers to the use of internet technologies to deliver a broad array of solutions that enhance knowledge and performance.

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Top Posts from August - Augmented Reality - Social Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Dimensions of a community of practice - Learning in a Sandbox , August 30, 2010 In their book “ Digital Habitats “, Etienne Wenger, Nancy White begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting and John Smith bring forward a model of three dimensions of a community of practice. Capital Spend.