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What is Facilitator Role

Chapter 43
Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
Different roles that a facilitator can take in performing his or her tasks in the community.
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Facilitation of Technology-Supported Communities of Practice
Halbana Tarmizi (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) and Gert-Jan de Vreede (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch042
Abstract
Communities of practice (CoP) has gained on prominence since it emerged as a concept in early 1990s, introduced by Lave and Wenger (1991) as situated learning. They argue that knowledge is acquired through active participation in a community as a new member moves from peripheral to full participation in the community. Since then, the CoP concept has evolved (Kimble & Hildreth, 2004), as Wenger (2004) defined CoP as “groups of people who share a passion for something that they know how to do, and who interact regularly in order to learn how to do it better” (p. 2).
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