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Knowledge Acquisition? Skill Develop? Go COP

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Synchronous-based learning is what I am referring to here. Actually, scratch one part of that – “whatever learning system,” because if your system follows or utilizes heavily Synchronous based learning, those two items, retention, and synthesis, won’t happen. COPs – Communities of Practice.

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From novice to expert

Learning with e's

Reference Lave, J. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity 19. abstract knowledge cognitive apprenticeship communities of practice education Jean Lave learning Scaffolding situated cognition social constructivism' and Wenger, E. 1990) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Training Method Trends

Clark Quinn

Synchronous (virtual classroom, virtual meetings, etc.) If someone can get to your online reference (stored on a wiki) through their smart phone's browser, is that mobile learning? Big winners: Communities of Practice, Wikis, Blogs, Podcasts. Synchronous eLearning is trending down? Again pretty close.

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Our mutual friends

Learning with e's

Learning within a highly connected community of practice provides learners with new vistas, greater scope for exploration, and access to dialogue at the highest level in their field of study. References Jenkins, H. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity 19. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26.

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Going the extra mile

Learning with e's

The previous post highlighted issues around the theory of Communities of Practice, from the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. How teachers encourage and support this kind of self actualization relies a lot on their creativity, their ability to inspire, and how well they practice the fine art of education.

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The point of no return

Learning with e's

Reference Mezirow, J. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity 19. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Teachers should therefore develop schemes of work and lessons that have elements of doubt and ill-structured problems for students to solve. San Francisco: Jossey Bass. Previous pos ts in this series: 1.

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In two minds

Learning with e's

Reference Paivio, A. Jung Archetypes and Synchronicity 19. Lave and Wenger Communities of Practice 26. Dual Coding theory explains why multi-media forms of education have been so successful in the past, but alternative cognitive processing theories that feature later in this series challenge this view.