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Communities of Practice in your LMS: A hidden KM tool

TalentLMS

Extend this to the Subject Matter Experts and popular spokes-person through a defined communication framework and you have a community of practice in action! Communities of practice are created by developing explicit knowledge. Remember to continue the same topic in the community of practice environment.

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Communities of Practice in your LMS: A hidden KM tool

TalentLMS

Extend this to the Subject Matter Experts and popular spokes-person through a defined communication framework and you have a community of practice in action! Communities of practice are created by developing explicit knowledge. Remember to continue the same topic in the community of practice environment.

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How to Build a Community of Practice (with Examples)

Thinkific

Once you find that common… The post How to Build a Community of Practice (with Examples) appeared first on Thinkific. Whatever your passion, you can bet there’s someone else in the world who shares it.

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Communities of Practice Need Some Practice

Nick Leffler

Defining Communities of Practice (CoP). It’s hard to define a Community of Practice, but I think a good start would be to quote a Tweet I recently saw from another MSLOC430 participant. As long as you’re changing your practice, you know you’re in a community of practice.

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Beyond Face-to-Face: Solving the Digital Practice Problem

Speaker: Bryan Naas, Director of Sales Enablement, Lessonly

This practice is time-consuming, inefficient, and can be impossible if you’re working with a remote salesforce. Fortunately, it’s 2019, and just like athletes have access to VR simulations, and artists have access to online communities of practice, the world of sales is also starting to catch up.

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The differences between social professional networks and communities of practice

Matrix

There is special emphasis on developing communities of practice (both within the organization and outside it) to encourage the professional development of employees in a friendly, effective and non-invasive manner. Main difference between social and professional communities. Communities of practice focus on a subject.

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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”. TorranceLearning has created a kind of community of practice that they call the Torrance Download. This is a terrific model for a community of practice, either for people from different organizations or for people internal to one organization.

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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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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

Learning Wire

<div class=”page-chapo”>Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise.</div> How do communities of practice work?

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Using an eWorkshop to initiate or enrich a community

The eLearning Nomad

These spaces have never really taken off, yet whenever there is a face-to-face get-together there is great enthusiasm for learning from each other and a call to continue remotely through a community of practice (CoP). We will use the eWorkshop method to kick-start and nurture the communities of practice. It’s so common.

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Virtual Communities Of Practice: 9 Tips To Engage Participants

eLearning Industry

Do you want to create a community of practice online? Learn how to engage participants in virtual communities of practice when everyone is in different locations and cannot see one another (which can be quite challenging). Have you tried using a webinar format but people aren’t talking?

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How to Create a Successful Community of Practice

Learning Wire

Communities of practice have existed within organizations for many years, usually taking the form of a group of people gathering together to share knowledge, to motivate each other, and build their expertise. The theory around communities of practice was developed by Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave in the early 1990s.

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Nuts and Bolts: Communities of Practice by Jane Bozarth

Learning Solutions Magazine

They form, build, and grow a community of. How can a small group of people stamp out bad training and bad eLearning? You can do it too.

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Using an eWorkshop to initiate or enrich a community

The eLearning Nomad

These spaces have never really taken off, yet whenever there is a face-to-face get-together there is great enthusiasm for learning from each other and a call to continue remotely through a community of practice (CoP). We will use the eWorkshop method to kick-start and nurture the communities of practice. It’s so common.

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ASAE 2010 Annual: Leaders of Communities of Practice

Web Courseworks

Associations are the hub of activity for "communities of practice.” Communities of practice are voluntary. Professionals join to gain access to peers, best practices, and education. What makes associations successful as communities of practice?

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Social Learning vs. Communities of Practice

Janet Clarey

When it comes to the terms “Social Learning” and “Communities of Practice”, many people in the corporate learning realm are confused, myself included. Are Social Learning and Communities of Practice different? Communities of Practice. I think they are, but do you? technologies.

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ASAE Annual: A Gathering of People Who Build Communities of Practice

Web Courseworks

What makes the Association market space so interesting to me and others involved in eLearning is that for individual professional development and for community building, Associations is where it all takes place; or at least, it should. According to Wikipedia here is the definition. “A

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The Case for Communities of Practice

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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. Ten years ago, the common wisdom was that you could not establish a community of practice. Have you assessed who might form natural communities?

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A Brief Introduction – Communities of Practice Manager

The Learning Circuits

As Ryann mentioned in a previous post, I’m the Community of Practice Manager for Learning Technologies at ASTD. In this role, I engage with the community and help build ASTD’s portfolio of content—from T+D articles to books to educational programs to conferences and beyond.

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Book Discussion Clubs That Can Boost Employee Performance And Engagement

eLearning Industry

In this article, I give you some tips on how you can introduce book discussion clubs as communities of practice that can enhance your L&D strategy and provide great benefits for your organization. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Situated Cognition In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

TalentLMS

Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. Below you’ll find 4 best practices and 5 tips that can help you integrate situated cognition into your eLearning strategy. 4 Situated Cognition Best Practices. Foster learning communities of practice.

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Boots On The Ground: Introducing A Community of Practice at Bechtel by Paul Drexler and Ani Mukerji

Learning Solutions Magazine

informal and collaborative learning among employees or members of a community of practice. A key activity for learning and development groups is supporting the growth and effectiveness of. Social and mobile technologies are essential to success, as this case study illustrates. essential (and inspiring) reading for all!

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The Mac Community of Practice

Jay Cross

Many a time I’ve described Mac users as a wonderful example of a community of practice. And does the Mac community of practice shield mother Apple from criticism? They have camaraderie. They identify with one another, wondering what’s with the outsiders who “don’t get it.&# They respect each other.

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Maximizing Your Learning Experience with Social Learning Apps

Instancy

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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Community of improvement?

Clark Quinn

In a conversation I had recently, specifically about a community focused on research, I used the term ‘community of improvement’, and was asked how that was different than a community of practice. First, let me say that a community of practice could be, and should be, a community of improvement.

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2022 ITA Jay Cross Memorial Award: Céline Shillinger

Clark Quinn

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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Ritual

Clark Quinn

From the design purpose, I’d suggest it’s about agreeing to be a member of a community of practice; to undertake certain actions when appropriate, and to uphold certain values. It can be about things you want people to believe, or a set of values you want people to subscribe to. Or, of course, both.

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How Does Implementing Formal Measures to Ensure Continuous Improvement Build Organisational Capability?

Acorn Labs

Formal measures for continuous improvement include implementing communities of practice (a group of people with a shared concern or interest), training evaluation, training assessments and post-training tracking. Continuous improvement is a persistent endeavour to bring improvements across the whole organisation. You see the problem?

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Insight Curation: Are We Accelerating or Protecting Productivity?

Living in Learning

The quality of those well-intended distributions, often via email attachments, or postings to knowledge bases, or communities of practice forums, or corporate shared drives, or SharePoint…or…or…or…are somewhat scattered.

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5 Reasons Facilitators Keep Virtual Training Class Size Small

InSync Training

I wanted to share more than my personal opinion, so I asked members of our Facebook Virtual Classroom Community of Practice what they thought. Facilitation Virtual Classroom - Facilitation Virtual Classroom - Best Practices' I recently posted a blog concerning the optimal class size for virtual training.

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The Collapse of a Community of Practice (CoP)

bozarthzone

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.

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Curation is the Key to Managing Your Personal Learning Network

InSync Training

Additionally, you belong to professional communities of practice (COP) like the eLearning Guild , ATD , and the Training Magazine Network. If you’re like me, you are subscribed to dozens of email lists, content newsletters, and newsfeeds about training and development.

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Locus of learning: community, AI, or org?

Clark Quinn

I’ve argued that the community of practice should determine the curriculum to be a member of that community. Similarly, the resources to support progression in the community should come from the community, both within and outside the organization. This can be achieved using AI-curated real-time briefings.”

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Setting up an online community? Here’s my advice

Jane Hart

Communities of Practice have become a bit of buzzword in corporate training recently; everyone seems to be setting them up. I’ve been running online communities (of different types) for many years now, and it’s important to point out that it requires a different set of skills to set one up and support one than to [.].

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Make it Meaningful: Elements

Clark Quinn

This could include connecting them to their new community of practice. We should acknowledge the learner’s effort and accomplishments, and signify their transition to a new state of being. There’s more, and this order is not the one you’d use in design, but these are the critical elements.

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Unpacking collaboration and cooperation?

Clark Quinn

Or you could be part of a Community of Practice and actively trying to improve something. Less intently, it may be a ‘show your work’ type of thing, where the organizational culture is supporting sharing, but it’s also an expectation. And I could be totally missing the nuances he’s talking about.

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Knowledge Acquisition? Skill Develop? Go COP

eLearning 24-7

COPs – Communities of Practice. Communities of practice started to appear as both standalone systems an within a system in the early 2000s. Every client on the Blue Volt system (not the end-users) can be within this ‘community of practice.’ ’ It goes across all boundaries.

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At the edge

Clark Quinn

Communities of Practice served as a model for this thinking. For an internal self-help solution, Allison Anderson developed a community of practice with events, portal, and a networking platform. This included and Enterprise Social Network and a Knowledge Management system.

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Will we still need L&D?

Clark Quinn

The predisposition could and should again be developed in schools, but until then… And one final opportunity is facilitating communities of practice to become responsible for development paths, resource curation and creation, and documenting and developing ongoing domain expertise.

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ATD WebCast Recap: Blended Learning Instructional Design

InSync Training

I’d like to thank the ATD Learning & Development Community of Practice for hosting a Webcast on June 1, when I delivered Blended Learning Instructional Design: A Modern Approach. The audience (over 300 strong in the live event!) was incredibly interactive. Highlights from the conversation are below.

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