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Community of Practice and the TorranceLearning Download

The Performance Improvement Blog

One of many methods of organizational learning is a “community of practice”. TorranceLearning has created a kind of community of practice that they call the Torrance Download. This is a terrific model for a community of practice, either for people from different organizations or for people internal to one organization.

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Communities of Practice in your LMS: A hidden KM tool

TalentLMS

Extend this to the Subject Matter Experts and popular spokes-person through a defined communication framework and you have a community of practice in action! Engage all learners in a transparent, open-to-all discussion board directly under the course. Communities of practice are created by developing explicit knowledge.

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Situated Cognition In eLearning: What eLearning Professionals Should Know

TalentLMS

Learners must be able to put their knowledge to use outside the virtual classroom, and simulating real world challenges is one of the best ways to achieve this. Cognitive Apprenticeships and communities of practice also go hand-in-hand with situated cognition. Foster learning communities of practice.

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Virtual Communities Of Practice: 9 Tips To Engage Participants

eLearning Industry

Do you want to create a community of practice online? Learn how to engage participants in virtual communities of practice when everyone is in different locations and cannot see one another (which can be quite challenging). Have you tried using a webinar format but people aren’t talking?

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Accelerate Employee Performance Using the Learning Curve: Part 3 Knowledge Formation

Infopro Learning

The curve of knowledge formation marks the period of time in a training program when learners are rapidly beginning to crystallize knowledge gleaned from on-the-job training and experiential learning. This is a period of learning in which establishing communities of practice is especially beneficial.

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MOOCs in Workplace Learning – Part 5: Skills Learners Need Today

Learnnovators

In this post, the fifth in the series, I want to focus on some of the learner characteristics that make for successful MOOC participants. In that sense, a MOOC is a dynamic and evolving pedagogical form that allows diverse set of learners to come together and form cohorts, to co-create and build the context as they go through the course.

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Supporting online learners

Learning with e's

It's called Supporting Online Learners and the link is here. These include an explanation and application of Lave and Wenger's Communities of Practice , Bruner's Instructional Scaffolding , Moore and Kearsley's Four Types of Interaction model, Festinger's Social Comparison Theory, and Moore's Transactional Distance Theory , among others.

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