Clark Quinn

JULY 5, 2022

As Head of Quality Innovation & Engagement at Sanofi Pasteur Céline helped to create the ‘Break Dengue’ global community to fight dengue fever. Céline understands the power of community. She says that, “If you cannot find a community of practice for your professional development, then create one.”

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Diversity Training Communities of Practice Internet Community 163

Infopro Learning

MAY 24, 2016

The curve of knowledge formation marks the period of time in a training program when learners are rapidly beginning to crystallize knowledge gleaned from on-the-job training and experiential learning. This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial. Knowledge Formation.

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bozarthzone

JANUARY 24, 2009

While a true community of practice is usually characterized by its lack of formal oversight, the moderators did a good job of blocking out blatant marketing attempts and people phising for email addresses, and refocusing/refereeing discussions when needed. And, really, they said, they're tired.

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Communities of Practice Community Yahoo Social Media 51

Mindflash

AUGUST 30, 2016

Is there a more critical function in most companies than enabling sales professionals to excel their jobs? This is a staggering figure considering that studies show 70% of what sales people learn about how to do their jobs, they learn from informal approaches. Here are some practical approaches to informal learning.

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Sales Wiki Job Training 44

Web Courseworks

JULY 16, 2019

If you are a professional instructional designer or online course developer, you probably belong to the community of practice called the eLearning Guild. They have their regular speaker experts and their annual conferences, and they have their industry vendors who help support the community.

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eLearning Guild Association LMS Association Learning Management System DevLearn 100

Clark Quinn

APRIL 20, 2021

As Joe Harless famously said “iInside every fat course there’s a thin job aid crying to get out.” . Instead, if we follow the intent of the 70:20:10 framework, it’s going to take some initial courses, then coaching, with stretch assignments and feedback, and joining a relevant community of practice, and….

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Expertise Learning Communities of Practice Issue 299

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 11, 2021

If they are working in a specific job role, they want to learn and acquire knowledge from those who truly understand what they are dealing with and are aligned. COPs – Communities of Practice. Communities of practice started to appear as both standalone systems an within a system in the early 2000s.

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Knowledge Skills Communities of Practice Develop 66

Yatharthriti

DECEMBER 5, 2022

If you are using the Moodle Learning Management System, then you discover how powerful it is for job skills training. Creating virtual communities: Communities of practice are informal groups of people within the business community that have common goals and interests.

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Moodle LMS Business Help 59

Jane Hart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Communities of practice will continue to grow as knowledge artisans need to integrate their work and learning in a trusted space. As the gig economy dominates, communities of practice can bring some stability to our professional development. You know you are in a real community of practice when it changes your practice.

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Social Learning Social Communities of Practice Community 120

Instancy

MARCH 9, 2023

Creating Communities of Practice Instancy’s social learning tools help learners to create communities of practice based on their interests. Each learning community may have its own unique site containing a content library, discussion forums, wiki knowledge base, polls, and more.

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Social Learning Wiki Social Social Networks 52

Avilar

MAY 18, 2022

It’s always been important for leaders to hone their management skills to keep up with organizational priorities, leadership best practices, and workforce trends. For example, over the past decade employee technical skills have become essential for nearly all job categories. Communities of practice. External hires.

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Teams Skills Management Leadership 92

Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

It might be a job aid, or an organizational change, not just a course. This needs to happen within communities of practice, within the organization, and with the field as a whole. While asking what people thought of a course may be a starting point, it’s not the end point by any means.

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Trends Cognitive Virtual World Second Life 147

Upside Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

It might be a job aid, or an organizational change, not just a course. This needs to happen within communities of practice, within the organization, and with the field as a whole. While asking what people thought of a course may be a starting point, it’s not the end point by any means.

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Trends Cognitive Develop Virtual World 130

Mindflash

APRIL 25, 2011

Is there a more critical function in most companies than enabling sales professionals to excel their jobs? This is a staggering figure considering that studies show 70% of what sales people learn about how to do their jobs, they learn from informal approaches. Here are some practical approaches to informal learning.

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Sales Wiki Job SocialText 69

Rapid eLearning

OCTOBER 18, 2011

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to find an elearning job. I’d also like to mention that these tips work if you’re looking for a new job or if you’re trying to position yourself in your current organization. Usually the person with the most experience and best qualifications gets the job. That’s fine.

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Job Diversity Training Tips Portfolio 81

ID Reflections

JULY 20, 2011

A lurker might very well be giving back by performing better at their jobs, by sharing insights with others in the context of their daily work by using the learning gleaned from lurking. This is especially true of communities in enterprises. Since the give back is asymmetric and happens in a different context, this goes unnoticed.

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Communities of Practice IBM Community Jive 203

ID Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

IMHO, the shifts and their impact delineated above will enforce and require collaboration -- between individuals, among organizations, between individuals and organizations, among project teams and communities of practices, and such. Some of the principle drivers and needs around collaboration are given below.

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Network Diversity Training PKM Communities of Practice 202

Association eLearning

APRIL 30, 2014

– Design: create very specific learning objectives to measure achievement of these outcomes, determining the best approach to delivering the training (tutorial, simulations, job aids, etc.). Corporate training departments have carried this further, by implementing coaching and communities of practice (CoP).

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Association Learning Management System Association Corporate eLearning Instructional Design 242

Learning Visions

MARCH 30, 2011

Using new social technologies to help people get on with their jobs. The role of L&D is to communicate and connect those who are doing the work (at the top of the pyramid) and management whose job is to support them. What are the ingredients of building a Community of Practice? Enterprise 2.0

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eLearning Guild Social Learning Social Metrics 208

Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2013

When we have an information need, we might need directories to people with various expertise (associated with Communities of Practice, presumably). We might design or curate useful information resources (how-to videos, job aids), and occasionally, when a significant skill shift is needed, we might design courses.

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Performance Support Support Communities of Practice Association 178

TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Do you remember your first job? Online support questions need to be answered and mentored in a “community of practice” manner. Managers need to describe in detail the entire job description, expectations and behaviors expected from the employee under the specific position profile. No comfort around you. No familiar faces.

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eLearning Strategy Online Strategy Portal 200

Clark Quinn

MARCH 6, 2012

In the past, other than courses, there was little at could be done except providing courses on how to coach, and making job aids. We can also have a richer suite of coaching and mentoring happening through Communities of Practice, where anyone can be a coach or mentor, and be developed in those roles, too.

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Social Networks Wiki Mentoring Coaching 185

The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

In my experience Linkedin has become the go-to place for developing professional connections, conducting job searches, and communicating with communities of practice. If Linkedin has truly been able to create and maintain that kind of culture given its growth, I'm very impressed.

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Culture Social Networks LinkedIn Communities of Practice 208

CLO Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are numerous ways to use internal resources to support learning, including coaching, mentoring, apprenticing, job shadowing and engaging in trial or stretch projects. Leveraging internal resources for skill building is one of the most important tools in the learning and development leader’s arsenal.

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Resources Support Effectiveness Confidentiality 79

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

DECEMBER 9, 2018

My thinking was sharpened, but I also took away really practical lessons for the things I am working on (like the idea to embed peergradio in Moodle for instance.) Communities of practice are powerful but not appealing A powerful things happened in the very last session at 17.00 and new relationships.

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Community Communities of Practice Blended Learning Conference 90

Matrix

MARCH 22, 2018

And this is where Communities of Practice — or CoPs — can jump in to save the day. A community of practice, on the other hand, exists because participation has value to its members, it’s defined by knowledge and the shared learning and interest, and it can exist long after a certain project has been completed.

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Companies Strategy Communities of Practice Community 49

Dashe & Thomson

JANUARY 8, 2012

Sending learners back to their jobs after training (even a “blended” combo of eLearning and ILT) without performance support is like sending them off into the woods without a map – then wondering why they got lost, even though you “gave them directions.”. Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) take job aids to the next level.

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Performance Support Blended Learning Support Performance 190

The Performance Improvement Blog

JULY 5, 2012

communities of practice). Helping workers learn continuously on the job. In this post , she writes that workplace learning is: Structured learning experiences (e.g., training) and informal learning experiences (e.g., Peer-to-peer learning that is “ lite on content and rich in interaction”.

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Actio Learning

JANUARY 27, 2022

sources of information ( resource repositories , job aids, etc.), and methods of collaboration (social, communities of practice , etc.). Performance Context An underwriters' job is complex. Over time, new technologies and approaches have expanded the definition to include instruction (classroom, e-learning, etc.),

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Blended Learning Compliance Training Blended Authoring Tools 52

E-Learning Provocateur

OCTOBER 6, 2015

If a job applicant lists some MOOCs on their CV, I think it demonstrates an aptitude to drive their own development. What about online social education and Communities of Practice? Community of Practice Case Study. Ernst and Young drops degree classification threshold for graduate recruitment. Informal first.

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Blended Learning Scanning Social Networks Instructional Design 100

The Performance Improvement Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

Leaders communicate that learning can happen in many different ways: face-to-face and online instruction, push training and pull learning, on-the-job activities, and social interaction. They provide opportunities to learn, adopt, adapt, practice, and apply what their employees learned on the job. People are fearless.

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Culture Create Metrics Performance Support 127

IT Training Department Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an increasingly technology-driven job market, having strong digital competencies can set individuals apart from their peers and open doors to new opportunities. When employees are trained in these systems, they can enhance their digital literacy and become more proficient in using these tools and technologies for their jobs.

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Digital Skills Blended Learning Custom eLearning Development 107

Clark Quinn

MARCH 18, 2013

If it’s knowledge that performers need, create a job aid, not a ‘spray and pray’ And facilitate people in self-helping. Think performance support first, and communities of practice, only resorting to courses as a last result. What we see are knowledge dump/test tarted up with trivial interactions.

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Change Simulations Performance Support Pedagogy 196

Dashe & Thomson

OCTOBER 3, 2011

That means more than 16,000 videos were contributed by members of the Angry Birds Community of Practice. The clear distinction between the Angry Birds community and the average workplace community-of-practice is obvious: the AB folks are making money for producing content.

Social Learning 167

Social Learning Community Social Social Media 167

E-Learning Provocateur

JANUARY 11, 2016

It just refers to the general observation that the majority of learning in the workplace is done on the job, a substantial chunk is done by interacting with others, while a much smaller proportion is done off the job (eg in a classroom). Set up a community of practice forum in which the trainee can ask questions in the moment.

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Wiki Communities of Practice Poll Instructional Design 100

Obsidian Learning

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Let’s look at some practical examples. When an employee needs to build specific technical skills, he or she might be directed to the company’s Community of Practice in that area. Click here to read some Community of Practice success stories. Support Performance on the Job. Forum for Sharing.

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Social Communities of Practice Performance Support Forum 56

Jay Cross

JULY 7, 2013

Communities of practice , a term coined by Institute for Research on Learning staff. Learning is a condition of continuing membership in that community. Shared practices create bonds between people. We are all members of multiple communities of practice. Knowing is really embedded in practice.

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Communities of Practice Community Learning Research 85