Communities of practice; an unending source
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Communities of practice;an unending source
Learning for Living: Innovations in career education Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation
Bram van den Hoogen, 2-11-2010
Bram van den Hoogen
Age: 36
Current position:
Consultant marketing & communication KPC Groep
Bio:
• Staff member board of governors group of high schools
• Strategist advertising company
• Consultant marketing & communication pharmaceutical wholesaler
Program ‘community of practice’
1. Introduction
2. Social media
3. Communities of practice
4. Workshop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQtG1JW-7U
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
architect
inventor
engineer
philosopher
physicist
chemist
anatomist
sculptor
writer
paintercomposer
On a daily basis
With others
Consistently documenting
… and a man who was dreaming for a future invention?
Learning 4 living
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Students
Preservation
Time
Distance
Knowledge
Skils
(Socio-political) borders
Unending source to preserve, spread and enhanceknowledge and skills …
Social Media
Chances
Express
Share
DevelopMeet
Learn
Grow!!!
Trends
Community of practice: definition
Group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or aprofession.
It is through the process of sharing information andexperiences with the group that the members learn from each other,
…
… and have an opportunity to develop themselvespersonally and professionally.
Community of practice: elements
Domain
• Methods• Stories• Cases• Tools• Documents
Community Practice
• Relations• Interaction• Respect/trust• Common history and identity
• Subject• Perspective• Goal/ambition
E. Wenger (2007)
Community of practice: case
• Institute: Teacher Training (Fontys - university of applied sciences)
• Community: busy parttime students with job, kids, etc.
• Goal: developing didactics for the internship school (50% offline, 50% online via COP)
• Use: other students give each other feedback via COP
• Evaluation:
- Much interaction (lively community)
- Content used as online portfolio (job aspirations)
- Participants regard the COP as a valuable asset during their study.
Ruud de Moor Centrum (2007)
Succes factors
• Involve endusers in the start-up OWNERSHIP
• Right mix of activities (documents, news, meetings, etc.)
• Skilful and reputable coordinator.
• Update frequently (documents, discussions, etc.)
• Don’t forget to meet OFFLINE
• English (makes it easy to share (internationally) in the project)
Community of practice: output
• Improving educational outcomes
• Meaningful exchange of expertise on the level of employees
• Harnessing business as a partner in education
• Increasing ownership under participants
• Auto-documentation of projects
Community of practice: the project
• Check the online career-learning café active project of Leonardo (Launched by Bill Law)
• Overall community of practice: documents, presentations, online magazine
• Build your own local community of practice for sharing information about L4L-projects in your country
• Sharing knowledge regardless cost, distance and time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jnzcq2w5o
Community of practice: workshop
1. Grab a piece of paper
2. Draw your organisation in the middle
3. Position stakeholders L4L round your organisation (education, business, governance, social organisations, etc.).
4. Determine the individual goals of these organisations
5. Search for a common goal - DOMAIN
Community of practice: workshop
Employment office
Education
BranchFuture employee
Customer
Decrease unemployment
Job
Qualified graduates
Standards, social benefits and image
Being served
McDonald’s Academy
Qualified employees
Community of practice: Linked In
Domain
1. Determine the goal and subject of the cop
2. Define desired content
3. Coordinator/moderator
Community of practice: Linked In
Community
4. Define desired partners
5. Open a LinkedIn-account (10 min)
6. Fill-in your profile (1,5 hour)
7. Create a group (10 min)
8. Invite desired partners inside your network (30 min)
Community of practice: Linked In
Practice
9. Care for starting content/mobilise top-influencers
10.Monitor the use and take actions ACTIVATE
11.Evaluate (also amongst participants)
Tutorial LinkedInhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXZ5ET9-bA
LinkedIn Group on communities of practicehttp://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3663751
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