The Learning Circuits

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

As Ryann mentioned in a previous post, I’m the Community of Practice Manager for Learning Technologies at ASTD. In this role, I engage with the community and help build ASTD’s portfolio of content—from T+D articles to books to educational programs to conferences and beyond.

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TalentLMS

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In this article, I’ll shed light on the situated cognition theory, from its core principles to tips that will help you use it in your next eLearning course. Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. According to J.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

As Head of Quality Innovation & Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur Céline helped to create the ‘Break Dengue’ global community to fight dengue fever. Céline understands the power of community. She says that, “If you cannot find a community of practice for your professional development, then create one.”

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Learning Pool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Launching AI Conversations, a generative AI offering that allows employees to practice challenging workplace conversations, in October 2023, we’re proud to have placed in two categories at the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards. It’s a breakthrough way for companies in any industry to ensure productive workplace conversations.

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Jay Cross

AUGUST 16, 2008

Many a time I’ve described Mac users as a wonderful example of a community of practice. Somebody help me before I kill again. And does the Mac community of practice shield mother Apple from criticism? They have camaraderie. They respect each other. Some put Apple decals in the rear windows of their cars.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

These are important to help the learner understand how the skill gets applied to particular situations. This could include connecting them to their new community of practice. The point being that basically we’re opening the emotional as well as the cognitive story.

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Docebo

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“Data from the Improvement areas that are identified on our clients’ scorecards has increased rapidly with our network growth, and, along with feedback from customers, has given us a clear picture of the most important education and guidance needed to help companies improve,” Emily Rakowski, CMO of EcoVadis. “We

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But this has bugged me, so I naturally tried to make a diagram that helps me think about it. Or you could be part of a Community of Practice and actively trying to improve something. My colleague, Harold Jarche ( the PKM guy), has maintained that cooperation is of more value than collaboration.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 31, 2018

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. A ‘yellow pages’ to find ‘in the moment’ help was also a part. For an internal self-help solution, Allison Anderson developed a community of practice with events, portal, and a networking platform.

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Matrix

AUGUST 5, 2021

To counteract that, it’s important to build communities of practice. Even if it takes effort and excellent organizational skills to set up communities of practice for geographically dispersed employees, the benefits are worth it. Read more: The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice.

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Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

In this digital age, many social learning apps are available to help learners maximize their learning experience. This article will introduce one such platform, Instancy, and its features that help learners to make the most of their social learning experience. They can also create links to external resources.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The system produces a visual readout to help commanders understand the cognitive patterns of individual soldiers. As learning professionals, we need to think about how we can use these new technologies to help people learn faster, perform better, retain memories longer, and hopefully become more human in the process.

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Infopro Learning

MAY 24, 2016

This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial. For example, if your training program is on leadership skills, each participant will have to present for five minutes on a particular leadership skill that he or she excels in and share best practices with the learning group.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

In a conversation I had recently, specifically about a community focused on research, I used the term ‘community of improvement’, and was asked how that was different than a community of practice. First, let me say that a community of practice could be, and should be, a community of improvement.

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Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2021

This does depend on the pre-existing knowledge of the learner, but it was Anders Ericsson who posited the approximately 10K hours of practice to achieve expertise. That’s both not quite accurate and not quite what he said, but as a rule of thumb it may be helpful. The important thing is that not just any practice will work.

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Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They’ll help each other out. Communities emerge. Communities of practice will continue to grow as knowledge artisans need to integrate their work and learning in a trusted space. As the gig economy dominates, communities of practice can bring some stability to our professional development. They’ll gripe.

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ID Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2011

showed the direction to the future of work All of this led to my growing interest in communities, communities of practices and the art of community managment, further fueled by Jono Bacon's The Art of Community. Communities would be the building blocks of a successful move towards being a "social business".

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Jane Hart

MARCH 18, 2013

This emerging practice is known as Enterprise Community Management (ECM), and is much wider than just supporting one small team or community of practice within an organisation, but is about having responsibility for building and sustaining a community across the whole of the organisation.

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Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community. “Street” Cred.

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Clark Quinn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I was having a discussion the other day with my ITA colleague Jay Cross, and the topic wandered over to how to use the social approaches we foster under the umbrella of the Coherent Organization to help organizations become one. And I went feral. Do we work top down, or bottom up?

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Jane Hart

APRIL 24, 2012

Furthermore, PKM is as much a life skill as a work skill – and actually one that needs to be acquired in schools, colleges and universities – to prepare students not just for the workplace but to help them make sense of all their online activities. So how can we help students as well as workers develop the new PKM skills?

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Nick Leffler

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Defining Communities of Practice (CoP). It’s hard to define a Community of Practice, but I think a good start would be to quote a Tweet I recently saw from another MSLOC430 participant. As long as you’re changing your practice, you know you’re in a community of practice.

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InSync Training

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

We use social media to share content, communicate, and interact. Sometimes creating a community of practice or personalized learning network is not a project goal or objective, but we know that putting one in place will certainly promote knowledge and skill acquisition in our learner’s moments of need.

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Mike Taylor

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Communities of Practice Playbook. Communities of practice can strengthen our capacity to work and learn creatively together while harnessing the collective intelligence in the organisation to deliver integrated policy work and overcome silo mentalities. Here are 21 fonts you might not know that are worth checking out.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 3, 2012

In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary.

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ID Reflections

JULY 20, 2011

From a community of practice perspective, lurking is interpreted as “legitimate peripheral participation,” a crucial process by which communities offer learning opportunities to those on the periphery. (p. After digging through the references and some old articles I had saved, these are some of the key points that emerged.

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Learning Visions

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

allisonanderson Learning Together: How Intel’s Learning Community of Practice Role Models “New” Learning with Allison Anderson 50+learning orgs at Intel – well over 650 people taking care of learning…Most people don’t have learning or training in their titles…hard to say exactly how many. My live blogged notes from CU Week.

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Clark Quinn

MAY 22, 2018

They may not help in new areas, but they give us a basis for new and unique combinations of circumstances. In the ‘ coherent organization ‘ model, these have been developed through our community of practice, and are brought to bear on challenges we’re addressing. And that’s important.

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Web Courseworks

AUGUST 24, 2017

National associations or “communities of practice” have been in the business of content curation for many years: publishing journals, books containing the community’s body of knowledge, and face to face educational sessions. Check out David Kelly’s post: Curated L&D Content for the Week on LinkedIn. webinar link.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 22, 2019

Sometimes we instead help learners connect with people who can support their learning experience. Here are some ways we can do that: Create communities of practice that either meet in person or virtually. Sometimes we as learning professionals don’t need to have “the answer” for the learner.

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CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

In the CIPD report , only 20 percent of respondents strongly agreed that they are prioritizing the skills needed to help their organizations in the future and this “lack of priority from the business” impacts the quality of all development opportunities.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

JUNE 3, 2010

Keeping the Wheels Turning: The Dynamics of Managing Networks of Practice. Journal of Management Studies, 47(1), 85-108 The authors make a distinction between NoPs and CoPs; networks of practice and communities of practice. Managers should support and energize communities, not neglect and ignore them.

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The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

But not every organization has the kind of culture that will help that organization achieve success. Getting that right helps with recruiting. It helps with motivating. It helps with inspiring. It helps with productivity…our culture has five dimensions: transformation, integrity, collaboration, humor and results.

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Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

DECEMBER 9, 2018

My thinking was sharpened, but I also took away really practical lessons for the things I am working on (like the idea to embed peergradio in Moodle for instance.) Communities of practice are powerful but not appealing A powerful things happened in the very last session at 17.00 and new relationships.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2013

If we find the answer, we should update the resources to help other people find the answer rather than having to rediscover it. I was thinking about this in terms of the ways in which L&D can support this process, and started noting the ways in which we can help besides courses.

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Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Using new social technologies to help people get on with their jobs. The future of the training department” (article by Harold and Jay) L&D people should be focused on removing barriers – helping people work smarter or better. L&D should help people focus on core skills – e.g., critical thinking skills. Enterprise 2.0

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Tony Karrer

OCTOBER 5, 2009

And as a bonus, John will be doing another session with Jack Merklien of Xerox Global Services on communities. Nancy and John have generously offered TWO FREE SIGNED copies of their book to people who help promote the conference and their sessions. You can see details below on these two sessions. Entering the Contest Twitter 1.

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