Communities of Practice

The map was developed by contributors to the Communities of Practice MirandaMod held at the WLE Centre, Institute of Education, on September 22 2009.

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Communities of Practice by Mind Map: Communities of Practice

1. A Mirandanet reflection

2. MirandaNet

3. Knowledge Sharing

3.1. This map!

4. Formal

5. Informal

6. Twitter

7. edutechtalk

8. Promethean Planet

9. Open Source Schools

9.1. Open source projects

10. TES Forums

11. Reflection on one's work as a personal and shared discipline

12. School learning platforms

12.1. Out of institution learning & collaboration

12.2. out of hours learning

12.3. heutagogic model

12.4. improved reflection (post gossip time)

12.5. teacher as mentor

12.6. teacher as co-learner

12.7. student as teacher

13. Taking ownership of collaborative knowledge

14. Online CoPs assume trust & are counter adversarial in nature; threats are less apparent/minimised. (Wenger) Does this factor for success lead to its demise?

15. Common challenges/interests

15.1. Trust & reciprocity

16. Follow-up communities eg e-mail (sometimes subversive of institution)

17. Etienne Wenger's Site

18. Best Practice Models for e-Learning Online Community

18.1. 2 Articles via 'Andy's Black Hole' Blog

19. Physical (In-Person)

19.1. e.g., Conferences

20. Virtual (Online)

20.1. e.g., MirandaNet

21. Unconferences and '...mods'

22. e-Safety issues

23. COP vs COL? "Practice" vs. "Learning"