Communities of Practice
Note that the reader might best be served to first read the topic Group Dynamics to understand the basic nature of most groups and their typical stages of development. (It's not clear at this time if online groups have similar nature and stages.)
Simply put, Communities of Practice are voluntary groups where members share a common priority (a problem, topic, etc.) and enhance their learning by interacting on an ongoing basis. Groups usually are informal and not part of an overall organization.
Basics and Overviews
Starting CoPs
Some Applications
General Resources
Basics and Overviews
Communities of Practice
-- a Brief Introduction
Communities
of Practice -- Definition and Elements
Communities
of Practice (Wikipedia)
Starting CoPs
Some Applications
A
Social Aspect to Virtual Worlds
Communities
of Practice -- Learning as a Social System
Communities
of Practice and Organizational Performance
General Resources
Fred Nickols'
list of resources
Facilitation Library
For the Category of Facilitation and Teams:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
Program Planning Kit to develop
high-quality peer coaching group program
- by Carter McNamara, MBA, PHD, published by Authenticity Consulting, LCC. The program planning kit provides step-by-step guidelines to plan, market (internally or externally), facilitate and evaluate a high-quality peer coaching group program for any application our outcome. The kit includes a program planning guidebook, a facilitator's guidebook and a guidebook for members of a peer coaching group.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Strategic Planning (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
Organizational Development (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
