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What is Virtual Community of Practice (VCoP)

Chapter 134
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
A misnomer, as the original concept of a Community of Practice (CoP) was based around situated learning in a collocated setting (Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities).
Published in Chapter:
Networks of Excellence as Virtual Communities
A. Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania), N. Matta (University of Technology of Troyes, France), G. Molcho (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), and G. Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch134
Abstract
The “Communities of Practice” concept was first used in relation to the learning process in 1991 by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) at the Institute for Research on Learning as part of an attempt to “rethink learning.” In 1998, Wenger extended this concept and applied it to other contexts, including organizational settings (Wenger, 1998).
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Chapter 20
Librarianship Presence in Virtual Worlds
a misnomer that has arisen to apply the concept of COPs to MUVEs.
Published in Chapter: Librarianship Presence in Virtual Worlds; From: Handbook of Research on Practices and Outcomes in Virtual Worlds and Environments
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Chapter 3
Virtual Collaboration and Community
A set of relationships among geographically distributed people, facilitated by electronic networked communication.
Published in Chapter: Virtual Collaboration and Community; From: Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
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