An affinity group. An informal network or forum where tips are exchanged and ideas generated [Thomas A. Stewart]. A group of professionals, informally bound to one another through exposure to a common class of problems, common pursuit of solutions, and thereby themselves embodying a store of knowledge [McKinsey & Co.].
Communities of practice are groups of practitioners who work as a community in a certain domain. One objective of DODEs is to support communities of practice. Virtual communities of practice are supported with the remote explorium. - R: Remote Explorium
a community of skilled individuals who share their knowledge is shared
a distributed group of people who share a common interest, mandate or sense of purpose
a group of individuals, defined by similar interests or business objectives and not necessarily by organization, who create, share and use knowledge to achieve a common goal
a group of individuals that work together for the purpose of creating common practices
a group of individuals who share an interest in a particular area
a group of people connected to each other by a need to solve common problems, develop skills, and share common practices
a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise
a group of people that come together in an informal way, but who have a common purpose for being together that maintains the 'organization
a group of people who do a certain type of work
a group of people who may be trying to solve a problem and who interact about a topic in order to deepen their knowledge
a group of people who share an interest in a domain of human endeavor and engage in a process of collective learning that creates bonds between them
a group of people who share interest in a topic, interact and build relationships, and share and develop knowledge, and thereby contribute to the success of the organization
a group of people who share things like information, ideas and personal experience in an area of expertise
a group of people who voluntarily come together because they care deeply about the same issue and they agree to interact routinely to improve practice around that issue
a group of professionals with a store of knowledge who are bound together through exposure to a common class of problems, common pursuit of solutions, and share common goals
a group that shares a social context and that is bound together by a set of problems and shared pursuit of solutions to those problems that involves building a body of knowledge and shared expertise that is held in common
a group that shares knowledge, learns together, and creates common practices
a group, which works together, share beliefs, values, and goals
a group, which works together, shares beliefs, values, and goals
a human process for solving a problem that is important to its members and a powerful change strategy
an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagement in some common endeavour
a network of employees across an organization that shares knowledge in order to better serve the customer
an informal group of people in an organization with a common professional interest
a place where a group of people, bound together by a common passion and interest, meet to ask questions, respond to others, and exchange ideas and information
a place where people share a common purpose and learn how to achieve that purpose in an unstructured, cooperative way
a set of relations among persons, activity, and world, over time and in relation with other tangential and overlapping communities of practice
a voluntary network of people who share information, build on existing knowledge, develop expertise and solve problems for a common purpose driven by the interest of the community involved
a way of developing best practice in a given area, established by members who wish to develop their specific expertise through open participation in the creation and exchange of knowledge
a website for a group with a defined interest to discuss issues and share information and experience
A form of social learning that occurs when people with a common interest in a subject collaborate to communicate ideas, find solutions to problems and define principles and terms relating to that subject.
A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who have worked with each other for a period of time with a common sense of purpose and a real need to know what each other knows.
"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis." -Etienne Wenger et al, Cultivating Communities of Practice, 2002.
Students, families, school-age services and program providers, post-school services and program providers, and local community members who share an interest and passion about secondary transition, and who deepen their understanding and knowledge of post secondary outcomes by interacting on an ongoing basis.
Group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better
Organisational groups of people that assume roles based on their abilities and skills, instead of titles and hierarchy. Also referred to as a community of interest
An organized group of users who share common interests about a topic or common sets of problems, or who have common needs that can be met by an infrastructure. In this case, a community of practice has common user requirements of the CGDI.
A group of people and/or organisations with similar interests in a particular field (e.g. teachers of a particular language). The existence of a community of practice does not imply legitimacy but it may have authority in the eyes of others prepared to trust its judgments. Source: Wenger, E., McDermott, R. & Snyder, W. (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass.
An informal group that shares values, perspectives, and ways of doing things. The motivation to learn is the deisre to participate in a "community of practice."
(often abbreviated as CoP) Refers to the process of social learning that occurs when people who have a common interest in some subject or problem collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.
