Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people with a common interest that are focused on collaboration and sharing of information related to their common interest. Wenger describes the structure of a CoP a
Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process ofcollective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning tosurvive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineersworking on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their ide...
Communities of practice help organizations stay informed and focused on intentional, strategic growth. Here’s what you need to know about them.
Communities of practice are not called that in all organizations. They are known under various names, such as learning networks, thematic groups, or tech clubs. While they all have the three elements of a domain, a community, and a practice, they come in a variety of forms. Some ar...
We sought to explicitly concentrate on a national scale, but with the support of international partners. We proceeded with the understanding that Communities of Practice (CoP) are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their ...
2.2 Online Communities of Practice Communities of practice are informal groups formed by a common practice or interest that collaborate to share ideas, exchange information, seek advice and help each other in a specific domain (Kumi & Sabherwal, 2018; Cho, 2016; Gunawardena et al., ...
Lave and Wenger's (1991) account of communities of practice is based on apprenticeship styles of learning,1 whereby novices or newcomers acquire the skills and knowledge valued in a particular community through interaction with more experienced members. Central to such an account are the ideas that...
homogeneity have a positive impact on a sense of community belonging and receptivity, and these factors in turn have a positive impact on active product recommendation behaviour. The implications of these findings for both theory and practice are discussed, including the importance of fostering ...
“Who knows what, and what are we missing? What other groups should we connect with?” Communities of practice are not called that in all organizations. They are known under various names, such as learning networks, thematic groups, or tech clubs. ...
There are no restrictions on who might benefit from a community of practice or how groups might organize themselves into communities. Consider the organization that has adopted DevOps methodologies into its workflow. DevOps joins development and operations teams into a single effort to help streamline...