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What is Communities of Practice (CoP)
1.
Groups
of
people who deepen their knowledge and expertise through interaction.
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2.
Groups
of
people sharing similar interests and passion and regularly exchange ideas and learn from one another.
Learn more in: Bridging Local and Global Experiences: A Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program for Teachers
3.
Lave and Wenger (1991) coined the term
CoP
to illustrate any group who engages in collective learning within a particular domain.
Learn more in: Pandemic-Fueled Essential Doctoral Community Collaborations: Library and Information Science Professionals and Doctoral Education Faculty Leaders
4.
Groups that structure and reflect social learning and define the group norms and processes, banded together by a sense
of
joint enterprise, mutuality and a shared repertoire
of
communal resources. They may be either online or face-to-face.
Learn more in: Teleworking and the "Disability Divide"
5.
Refer to an informal groupings
of
technology students who voluntary share and communicate similar technological interests and topics.
Learn more in: Digitalization and Drivers of Innovative Behavior for a Smart Economy in the Post-COVID-19 Era: Technology Student Course Design Characteristics
6.
CoP
s refers to the idea
of
sharing information and knowledge within a small group, as well as to the value
of
informal learning for a group and an organization (Mitchell, 2002).
Learn more in: Status and Future Trends of Multimedia Interactivity on the Web
7.
The focus
of
this concept is on how people construct meaning when they interact in working life with each other, with technologies and with tasks.
Learn more in: Facilitating Multicultural Student Team Engagement in Higher Education: A Model for Digital Learning Environments
8.
Groups “
of
people who share a concern, a set
of
problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis” ( Wenger et al., 2002 , p. 4).
Learn more in: Virtual Communities of Practice for Health Care Professionals
9.
Lave and Wenger (1991) coined the term
CoP
to illustrate any group who engages in collective learning within a particular domain. As a
CoP
, the doctoral learning community supplies a social network to allow for the doctoral scholar’s agency enhancement including development as an independent investigator.
Learn more in: Scholarly Voice and Academic Identity: A Systematic Review of Doctoral Student Agency
10.
Groups
of
people engaged in collective learning that share a common domain, community and
practice
Learn more in: Virtual Learning Communities in Organizations and Institutions of Higher Learning: Implications for Technology, Learning Practice, and Organizational Culture
11.
Online as well as
of
fline social networks who share a passion for a
practice
. Their
practice
improves with regular online and
of
fline interactions as theorized by Lave and Wegner (1991) .
Learn more in: Knowledge Management for Development (KM4D)
12.
Groups
of
individuals sharing information, ideas, or experiences on a common domain.
Learn more in: Business Process Reuse and Standardization with P2P Technologies
13.
A group
of
people who come together to share a pr
of
ession, craft, or trade.
Learn more in: Moving Beyond Trial and Error: Exploring Case Studies of Professional Development Models in K–12 Blended Learning
14.
consists
of
people who are informally connected because they have common interests as learning and knowledge sharing.
Learn more in: Virtual Communities of Practice as a Support for Knowledge Sharing in Social Networks
15.
Groups “
of
people who share a concern, a set
of
problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an on-going basis” ( Wenger et al., 2002 , p.4).
Learn more in: Successful Virtual Communities of Practice in Health Care
16.
Are groups
of
people who are brought together by a common concern, a set
of
opportunities/problems, and a desire to learn and deepen their knowledge by interacting on a continuing basis.
Learn more in: Criteria That Contribute to High Quality Teaching
17.
CoP
s are “[…] groups
of
people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise […]” ( Wenger & Snyder, 2000 ).
CoP
s can but do not have to be supported by ICT.
Learn more in: Conception, Categorization, and Impact of HR-Relevant Virtual Communities
18.
A system by which “people learn and develop shared
practice
s while engaging in a common enterprise over time” ( Wenger, 1998 AU34: The citation "Wenger, 1998" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. , p.119).
Communities of practice
are based on the idea that as social beings, individuals learn through social interaction.
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