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"The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them". John Plamenatz
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Hi Azam,
This is a nice little post. I think you may post social networks later on coz it's heading is communities of practice and social networks. According to my knowledge and research that I have done I think this two has more similar characteristics. I agree that they are spontaneous nature and also isolated groups but then the question is how facebook and myspace can be example for these isolated groups. However as far as I think these are examples for social networks but there is no restriction to be a communities of practice as well.
By the way you can read more about social network here.
Hi Thilina
The meaning of the word in this context does not indicate that social networks such as myspace or facebook are "out of touch" groups. It is meant to indicate that social networks could be difficult to supervise or govern.
Hope this helps.
Hi Azam, nice post but i have to disagree with something. In your post you are saying that 'Communities of practice have a spontaneous nature, they are informal and can be regarded as naturally isolated groups '. If I am not mistaken, CoPs are not always spontaneous and informal but in some cases they are in other cases they are not.
Hi Chrisch
You are giving a broader definition by including Cops which could be formal or informal and I agree with you that they could be both. Do you have examples of each?
Its just chris by the way:) Well an example for a formal CoP could be a company gathering experts on a subject to achieve something and a nice example of a spontaneous informal CoP i 've seen somewhere is a group of nurses telling stories and sharing experiences during their lunchtime, just by sharing that knowledge for a common interest they improve their selfs and a CoP is created without them being aware that they have formed some kind of an informal-spontaneous CoP. I hope my examples were clear enough
Hi Azam, I was just thinking about both formal and informal COP within the same organization. If we take education as an example. An informal COP could be Lecturers sharing knowledge on how they have conducted small group sessions or workshops and the success and failures of the approaches they have taken.
Formal, but within the same organization, might be a discussion across representatives of schools (science, English , geography) within the college on the effectiveness of differing types of assessment. The more formal COP in this case may have been requested by a Dean to review methods of assessment and reflect and share knowledge on what has been successful and why. This could then be distributed and may help form procedure or guidelines for subject assessment for future courses.
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