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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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2023 ITA Jay Cross Memorial Award: Keeley Sorokti

Clark Quinn

As an instructor, she co-teaches the Creating and Sharing Knowledge class in the Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change (MSLOC) program at Northwestern University. She actively shares her expertise and insights.

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Supporting online learners

Learning with e's

If you're new to online teaching, or are revisiting it, do consider spending an hour of your time to browse through the ideas in this module. This course, as with the others, is completely free to take - and is especially written with teachers in mind. It's called Supporting Online Learners and the link is here.

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

This is when training is really starting to “click” with learners: suddenly peer-to-peer learning becomes much more powerful, since the learners are becoming so familiar with the training material that they are able to teach it to others! This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial.

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TCC08: Creating and Teaching a College-Level Undergraduate Course in Social Networking

Experiencing eLearning

Will teach with blogs and a wiki. Using the tools to teach the content–mostly avoiding the LMS. Past predictions about online communities assumed text because that was what was available. More communities of practice. Developed a course on social networking for business. iTunes University. Second Life.

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How Moodle LMS can help your business operations thrive

Yatharthriti

Creating virtual communities: Communities of practice are informal groups of people within the business community that have common goals and interests. These groups work together so that one can teach and learn from one another. Communities of practice are also designed to complement the formal training you offer.

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Educating Medical Personnel: New Book Reviews CPD Topics

Web Courseworks

Every so often a book is published that provides a community of practice with a fresh perspective on current issues. The intention of this review is to describe a few chapters, reiterate the book’s importance to the community of practice, and provide our readers with one of the editor’s commentary. Rayburn, Mary G.