Communities of Practice

• Introduction to communities of practice, by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner of Wenger-Trayner

• Community of Practice Design Guide, from EduCause

• The role of communities of practice in a digital age, by Tony Bates

• Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System, by Etienne Wenger of Wenger-Trayner

• Community of practice, from Wikipedia

• Communities of Practice, by Jean Lave of the University of California-Berkeley and Etienne Wenger of Wenger-Trayner

• Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems, by Etienne Wenger of Wenger-Trayner

• Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: the construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice, by Anne-Marie Bathmaker of the University of Sheffield and James Avis of the University of Wolverhampton

• UTAS Community of Practice Initiative, by Jane Skalicky and Melody West of the Center for the University of Tasmania

• What is a Community of Practice and How Can We Support It?, by Christopher Hoadley of NYU

For more information, see also Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger and Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger.

Additional quality resources are available from CPsquare and Connected Educators.

Research Groups

• Wenger-Trayner

• CPsquare

• CPsquare: The Community of Practice on community practices

• The NSTA Learning Center

• Edutopia Community

• Vertically Integrated Projects Program, from Georgia Tech

• Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice, by Mark Smith of infed

• Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier, by Etienne Wenger and William Snyder in the Harvard Business Review

• Systems Convening in a Landscape of Practice, with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner

• Online Communities of Practice: What Works, by Therese Mageau of T.H.E. Journal

• The Two Types of Online Communities That Can Drive Growth, from Daniel Burrus of Huffington Post Business

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