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Lurking is Not a Static State

ID Reflections

Finally, are lurkers considered as community members? After digging through the references and some old articles I had saved, these are some of the key points that emerged. There are communities where we continue to remain as lurkers. Etienne Wenger, Nancy White and John D. This happens due to various reasons.

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Using SharePoint

Tony Karrer

Using SharePoint for Work Team or Communities of Practice (CoP) Collaboration Outside of any particular formal learning, many training organizations are using SharePoint to support work teams. Possibly its smarter use of Outlook that's the intent from a Microsoft vision of supporting the knowledge worker. were similar.

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Network Skills

Tony Karrer

There's quite a lot of discussion/debate whether blogs act as networks or community. Take a look at: How relevant are communities of practice in a network age? My Community Facilitation Skills are Hopeless One thing I started to realize is that good community facilitation takes time, desire, skills and appropriate mentality.

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Global digital tribe

Learning with e's

If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice. Wheeler, S.

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Centring on strengths at core of self-directed learning approach

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Some of these consequences include unmotivated learners, reinforcement of the negative rather than maximizing the positive, unengaged workers and little authentic team building. He also recommends helping workers learn how to improve their learning skills as well as creating a supportive organizational culture.

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

Focused on knowledge workers–people who use digital info in their jobs. not knowledge workers. Pathway to community; you have to be embedded in the community to help. Complex communities of practice where individual identity is constructed. References will be on her blog shortly.

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Determinism, Best Practice, and the ‘Training Solution’

Performance Learning Productivity

Best practice exists only in simple working environments. Good practice (multiple good ways of achieving outcomes) exists in complicated working environments. Training focuses on best practices, while development focuses on next practices”. Clark’s diagram here gives a clear view.

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