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Book instead of blogposts

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

When I started in 2005 with communities of practice, few organizations were interested. There is now much more buzz around learning in communities. I think that learning professionals in the future will have a much higher involvement with social technology in the organization.

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The differences between learning in an e-business and learning in a social business

Jane Hart

Community management. Increasing interest in building and managing learning communities as part of blended programmes. Supporting self-organized communities of practice, and developing new community skills of practice, is a key area of work. (automation). LEARNING IN A SOCIAL BUSINESS. innovation).

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Quotes and excerpts on the need for Learning 2.0 from the Best of T+D: 2007-2009

ID Reflections

Shaffer in How Computer Games Help Children Learn (quoted by Harold Jarche in T+D) Creativity is a conversation--a tension--between individuals working on individual problems, and the professional communities they belong to. In a flattened learning system, there are fewer experts and more fellow learners on paths that may cross.

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Making Connections: Trends in Social Learning

Obsidian Learning

Building on the concept of communities of practice , Etienne Wenger (2009) has proposed a social theory of learning. The focus of this theory is “learning as social participation,” in which learners actively participate in the practices of social communities and construct personal identities in relation to these communities.

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The Blog Evolved

The Learning Circuits

Well, ASTD’s website redesign in April enabled us to publish blogs through our own Communities of Practice—rather than externally house them. After a few years of misfires and restarts, Jay helped us relaunch the blog as we now know it on January 5, 2005, with a post laying down ground rules for a group-generated blog.

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Reach out and connect

Learning with e's

Wendy Earle's 2005 discussion on the nature of literacies is a useful starting point. Selecting the right tools that will enable each of us to connect into and plunder the collective intelligence of the most relevant communities of practice is one of the new digital literacies professionals and students will need to draw upon.

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Microlearning presentation at LearnTrends

Janet Clarey

I couldn’t really articulate differences between networks and communities of practice when Tony asked. This is one of those research areas where I’m reading and thinking, crap these people are brilliant. Hoping some rubs off. Perhaps it’s the four diet Pepsi’s and the hot dog I had for lunch. Innsbruck, Austria.