Fostering Communities of PracticeASEE CMC Industry Day 2013

Dan Sayre

Communities of Practice

• Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.

Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, 1991

• Lave and Wenger first used the term communities of practice to describe learning through practice and participation, which they named situated learning.

3 Essential Components

•The Domain

•The Community

•The Practice

Lesser & Storck (2001)

Communities of practice can increase organizational performance by:• Decreasing the learning curve of new

participants• Responding more rapidly to user needs and

inquiries• Reducing rework and preventing "reinvention of

the wheel"• Spawning new ideas for products and services

ASEE-NSF Collaboration

CMC Community of Practice SIG

• The CMC Community of Practice SIG is a collaborative group of academics and professionals who share a commitment to leveraging innovation.

• The CoP SIG brings together engineering educators and business leaders in software, hardware and publishing firms that serve engineering education.

Our mission

As traditional modalities for teaching engineering (lecture, reading, homework, lab, exam) evolve to support better learning outcomes…

How should the tools, product and services we supply to educators and students evolve to best meet their needs?

Flipped, active, problem-based, virtual, online, asynchronous, open, learner-centered nirvana

MOOCs

MOOCs

MOOCs

MOOCs

MOOCs

Shocks to our Infrastructure

Traditional • Copyright• Accreditation• Peer Review• Tenure• FERPA• Licensure

Emerging• Creative Commons• Badges & Certificates• Crowdsourcing• Star system• Online Portfolios• Let’s hope not …

McKinsey Global Institute – May 2013 report on “Disruptive Technologies”

Find x

TEXTBOOK:MAINFRAME :: x:smartphone

Traditional WorkflowLecture/Textbook

Describe theory

Work example

Assign practice problem

Assess in exams

Lab

Read pre-lab

Execute lab procedure

Write lab report

New Workflow

DO

ReadWatch

Do

• Apply theory• Calculate• Predict

Analyze

• Spice• MATLAB• HDL

Simulate• Discovery

module• MyDAQ

Build & Measure (USB powered)

• Agilent• Tektronix

Build & Measure (lab bench) • Interpret

• Feedback & feedforward

Post-Analysis

Phil Hill, consultant and industry analyst covering the educational technology market primarily for higher education

International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors

Through the cooperative efforts of

the global chip manufacturers and

equipment suppliers, research communities,

and consortia, the roadmap teams identify

critical challenges, encourage innovative

solutions, and welcome participation from the

semiconductor community.

Get involved

CMC CoP SIG

Chair: Dan Sayre (dsayre@wiley.com)