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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. This is a term coined by Etienne Wenger to describe “…groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” What can be done to help learners become agile?

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

Learnnovators

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. Finally, the words learners and workers will conflate.

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 5: SKILLS LEARNERS NEED TODAY

Learnnovators

The emergent nature of MOOCs can have interesting outcomes: They can enable the formation of Communities of Interests (CoIs), which can evolve into Communities of Practices (CoPs) if participants are keen on building the domain knowledge and practices. Finally, the words learners and workers will conflate.

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Organizations as Communities - Part 1

ID Reflections

The need for organizations to function as communities of passionate and purpose-driven individuals is becoming even more critical in the face of unprecedented upheaval being faced at local, global and planetary levels.

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Facilitating Learning

Clark Quinn

This happens naturally among communities of practice, and so for much of organizational learning, creating an environment where this can happen around organizational goals is really the ‘informal learning’ Jay Cross talked about in his book on the topic.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

Fast forward a few decades (shhh), and the agile manifesto arises for software development, focusing on the same elements. Now we’re hearing about these principles being proposed for learning design, and I couldn’t be happier. You can (and should) get more agile and actually develop iterative versions of your final result.

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Clark Quinn – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

With things changing faster, competitors able to be more nimble, and customers getting more ‘clued in’, companies will have to be more flexible and able to adapt faster, which requires agility. Learnnovators: What are the latest trends in organizational learning & development, and performance support?