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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice”

Adobe Captivate

Chapter 2: From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice by Sasha Barab and Thomas Duffy (2012). There are a range of opinions and positions within the constructivist and situativity communities regarding even the basic concepts laid out in this text. Here is this month’s chapter summary.

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Make learning initiatives work for you

Logicearth

This is as true in learning as in anything else: whether it’s microlearning, cohort-based, blended, building communities of practice, or whatever form it takes, if you’re clear on the purpose, everything becomes easier. So it’s always a useful exercise to dig into why the learning matters. And how does it do so?

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Make learning initiatives work for you

Logicearth

This is as true in learning as in anything else: whether it’s microlearning, cohort-based, blended, building communities of practice, or whatever form it takes, if you’re clear on the purpose, everything becomes easier. So it’s always a useful exercise to dig into why the learning matters. And how does it do so?

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50 Ways to Lever Learning

The Performance Improvement Blog

Game –engaging employees in learning by applying principles of gaming (scoring, competition, rules of play, etc.) Community of practice – people who share the same interests or responsibilities in an organization come together to learn from each other. to create an experience that is interactive and fun.

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How to Define & Build Effective R&D Capability in Your Organisation 

Acorn Labs

This is not an exercise to tick a box; the point is to define sustainable capabilities. You could go the extra mile and make it a capability academy , through which you can facilitate communities of practice and encourage best practice sharing (and improve innovation, performance and collaboration while you're at it).

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How to Define & Build Effective R&D Capability in Your Organisation 

Acorn Labs

This is not an exercise to tick a box; the point is to define sustainable capabilities. You could go the extra mile and make it a capability academy , through which you can facilitate communities of practice and encourage best practice sharing (and improve innovation, performance and collaboration while you're at it).

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Semantic Interoperability

Experience API

There is a finite set of data that can be recorded about the types of learning experiences common to online training, and summarizing information from that data is a relatively straightforward exercise. So straightforward, in fact, that practitioners have long cared primarily about a big four—score, completion, satisfaction (i.e.,

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