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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. Chefs are a community of like-minded individuals who identify with one another, advance the practice of their profession and help new entrants join the industry.

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9 Strategies to Make Your Peer Learning Program Thrive

CLO Magazine

If you’re sponsoring or developing a peer learning program, you know that professional communities of practice are a cost-effective way to leverage the collective wisdom and experience of a group of leaders with similar roles, challenges or interest areas. Tags: communities of practice , peer learning.

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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. Tags: Informal Learning. It was like truffles.

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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

Ranking, tagging, top stories Tags link back to the tagger's BluePages profile IBM owns more than 50 islands in Second Life. Privacy / Confidentiality - Limit the visibility. Security - This is no worse than any other form of electronic communication. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. No anonymous users.

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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. Communication (88).