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CoP Design and Start Up
- CoP
Design Primer
Information on how to begin and design a CoP collaboratively
developed by: the National Learning Infrastructure
Initiative at EDUCAUSE and a community it sponsored,
the Bridging VCOP; the American Association for
Higher Education; and iCohere.
- CoP
Start-Up Kit
Fred Nickols describes the lifecycle of a community
of practice, explains two types of CoP and provides
general guidelines and strategies for implementation.
Find this document, along with more CoP resources,
on Nickols’ Articles page.
- Seven
Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice
An article by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott
and William M. Snyder published in Harvard Business
School's "Working Knowledge."
"Communities
are much more than their calendar of events….
The heart of a community is the web of relationships
among community members."
From Cultivating Communities
of Practice
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CoP
Facilitation
- Creating
and Facilitating Communities of Practice
Queen's Centre for Knowledge-based Enterprise brings
together a focus group of knowledge managers that
have real-world experience with CoP.
- Identifying
Challenges for Facilitation in Communities of Practice
A paper by Halbana Tarmizi, Gert-Jan de Vreede,
and Ilze Zigurs presented at the Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences in 2006. Presents
challenges faced by CoP facilitators based on survey
results reflecting the tasks that are most challenging
and important for facilitators.
Further
Reading and Resources on CoP
- Community
of Practice Variety from a Complexity Perspective
By Shawn Callahan and Patricia Milne. Looks at CoP
with the aim of "uniting disjointed approaches".
Addresses: 1. the process of copying strategies
and types 2. copying with error 3. recombination
of ideas and 4. the role of the physical environment.
- Etienne
Wenger Home Page
Etienne Wenger, thought leader and writer in the
field of CoP, provides insights, tools, resources,
a publications survey of community of practice technology
and more.
- CP
Square Web Site
CP Square is an online CoP for people running communities
of practice. It also provides an online course on
how to facilitate CoP.
- Building
Business Value through Communities of Practice
Jenny Ambrozek and Lynne Bundesen Ambrozek discuss
the demonstrated value of CoP for businesses.
- Open
Academy's list of CoP resources
Open Academy, an online learning environment within
MINDEF, provides a comprehensive list of CoP resources.
Tools and Resources
for Community Learning
- Community
Problem Solving Project @ MIT
The Community Problem Solving Project @ MIT provides
links to valuable tools and resources for community
problem solving and best practice info in a variety
of areas.
- How
to do a Social Network Analysis
Create a visual map of member connections in your
organization through mathematical analysis of human
relationships with this how-to guide from Orgnet.
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