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 | Inside Outside: Improving Mental Health Services for Black and Minority Ethnic Communities in England Report on first steps in developing guidance on how to meet the needs of black and ethnic service users according to the NSF for Mental Health (PDF, 202 kB) | | |
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| Learning in a community of practice: creating and managing knowledge through networked expertise. Maarten de Laat. (PDF, 85 kB) | | |
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| Siemens takes a grass-roots approach to knowledge management: Siemens, once noted for its bureaucratic and hierarchical approach to business, has adopted a grass-roots and "bottom up" approach to knowledge management, which has transformed the company over the last three years. Without any suggestion or provocation from above, middle-level employees and managers in Siemens business units began to create repositories, communities of practice and informal sharing approaches for knowledge. | | |
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| OntoShare: a knowledge management environment for virtual communities of practice by John Davies | | |
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| Enhancing knowledge exchange through Communities of Practice at the Inter-American Development Bank The Knowledge Bank and the Global Development Network | | |
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| Getting strategic value from constellations of communities. Strategy and Leadership by Andrew Chetley (PDF, 247 kB) | | |
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| US Aid - Development for Community of Practice. The US Aid website has numerous references and documents about community management, getting started tools, functionality and software overviews and social network analysis introductions. | | |
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| Motivation and Barriers to Participation In Virtual Knowledge-Sharing Communities Of Practice by Alexander Ardichvili, 2002. | | |
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Using communities of practice to enhance student learning: examples and issues, written by Edward Bilodeau from McGill University. 2003. |
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Creating Authentic On-Line Communities of Professional Practice. Mandia Mentis, Ken Ryba & Jean Annan Massey University (NZ). In this presentation, they outline how principles of situated cognition and Vygotskian thought contribute to our understanding of how to create vibrant and authentic on-line communities of practice. |
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Forging Links Between “Communities of Practice” and Schools Through Online Learning Communities: Implications for Appropriating and Negotiating Knowledge, David Hung, International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL). In this paper, Hung suggests how links between schools and communities of practice can be forged through networked on-line learning communities |
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Situated cognition, Vygotskian thought, and learning from the communities of practice perspective: Implications for the design of web-based e-learning. Hung, D. W. L., & Der-Thanq, C. (2001). . Education Media International 38(1), 3-12. |
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Situated cognition and the culture of learning written by John Seely Brown and Collins (1989). Institute for Inquiry, 1998. |
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Situated learning: An inductive case study of a collaborative learning experience by Schell and Black, R.S. (1997). Journal of Industrial Teacher Education 34(4), 5-29 |
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Networks as learning communities: Shaping the future of teacher development. Lieberman (2000). Journal of teacher education 221-227 |
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Community of Practice a metaphor for Online Design written by Schwen and Hara. (2003). The Information Society, 19(3), 257-270. |
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Communities-of-Practice in Workplaces: Learning as a Naturally Occurring Event. Written by Hara, and Schwen. Performance Improvement Quarterly. |
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Authentic learning within the community of practice: The Advancing Teaching and Learning Program (case study). Deborah Ingram and Allan Goody, The University of Western Australia. 2002. |
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The Invisible Keys to Success by Thomas Stewart. Fortune Magazine, 1996. |
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Organizational learning and communities-of-practice: Toward a unified view of working, learning, and innovation. By J.S. Brown and Paul Duguid. (1996) |
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 | Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Etienne Wenger) - 1999 | | 
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 | Cultivating Communities of Practice (Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder) - 2002 | | |
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 | Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage (Hubert Saint-Onge, Debra Wallace) - 2002 | | |
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 | Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice (Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble) - 2004 | | |
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 | Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier (Etienne Wenger, William M. Snyder) - in PDF | | |
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| Yahoo! com-prac (John Smith) | | |
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| CP Square (Etienne Wenger, Bill Snyder) | | |
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| Yahoo! webcommunities (Cynthia Typaldos) | | |
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| Yahoo! sharepoint KM (Ross Wirth) | | |
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| Yahoo! AOK-net (Jerry Ash) | | |
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| Knowledgeboard SIG on Communities of Practice (Diane le Moult) | | |
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| Yahoo! Knowledge Networks (Andy Swarbrick) | | |
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| Group-Jazz Virtual Chautauqua (Lisa Kimball) | | |
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| It's all about people and networks (Efios) | | |
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| CP Square (CP Square) | | |
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| Value-creation with Communities of Practice (ECCOP) | | |
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| Guerilla KM (Greg Searle) | | |
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| Innovation Tools weblog | | |
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| Martin Dugage about communities at Schneider Electric | | |
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| Bill Ives (often blogs about KM and communities of practice) | | |
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| Unbound Spiral (Stuart Henshall) | | |
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| APQC on KM and Communities of Practice (Farida Hasanali) | | |
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This list has been updated
15-May-2005 |
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Knowledge Garden on Communities of Practice
