Communities of practice;an unending source

Learning for Living: Innovations in career education Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation

Bram van den Hoogen, 2-11-2010

Bram van den Hoogen

Age: 36

Current position:

Consultant marketing & communication KPC Groep

Bio:

• Staff member board of governors group of high schools

• Strategist advertising company

• Consultant marketing & communication pharmaceutical wholesaler

Program ‘community of practice’

1. Introduction

2. Social media

3. Communities of practice

4. Workshop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEQtG1JW-7U

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

architect

inventor

engineer

philosopher

physicist

chemist

anatomist

sculptor

writer

paintercomposer

On a daily basis

With others

Consistently documenting

… and a man who was dreaming for a future invention?

Learning 4 living

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Students

Preservation

Time

Distance

Knowledge

Skils

(Socio-political) borders

Unending source to preserve, spread and enhanceknowledge and skills …

Social Media

Chances

Express

Share

DevelopMeet

Learn

Grow!!!

Trends

Community of practice: definition

Group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or aprofession.

It is through the process of sharing information andexperiences with the group that the members learn from each other,

…

… and have an opportunity to develop themselvespersonally and professionally.

Community of practice: elements

Domain

• Methods• Stories• Cases• Tools• Documents

Community Practice

• Relations• Interaction• Respect/trust• Common history and identity

• Subject• Perspective• Goal/ambition

E. Wenger (2007)

Community of practice: case

• Institute: Teacher Training (Fontys - university of applied sciences)

• Community: busy parttime students with job, kids, etc.

• Goal: developing didactics for the internship school (50% offline, 50% online via COP)

• Use: other students give each other feedback via COP

• Evaluation:

- Much interaction (lively community)

- Content used as online portfolio (job aspirations)

- Participants regard the COP as a valuable asset during their study.

Ruud de Moor Centrum (2007)

Succes factors

• Involve endusers in the start-up OWNERSHIP

• Right mix of activities (documents, news, meetings, etc.)

• Skilful and reputable coordinator.

• Update frequently (documents, discussions, etc.)

• Don’t forget to meet OFFLINE

• English (makes it easy to share (internationally) in the project)

Community of practice: output

• Improving educational outcomes

• Meaningful exchange of expertise on the level of employees

• Harnessing business as a partner in education

• Increasing ownership under participants

• Auto-documentation of projects

Community of practice: the project

• Check the online career-learning café active project of Leonardo (Launched by Bill Law)

• Overall community of practice: documents, presentations, online magazine

• Build your own local community of practice for sharing information about L4L-projects in your country

• Sharing knowledge regardless cost, distance and time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jnzcq2w5o

Community of practice: workshop

1. Grab a piece of paper

2. Draw your organisation in the middle

3. Position stakeholders L4L round your organisation (education, business, governance, social organisations, etc.).

4. Determine the individual goals of these organisations

5. Search for a common goal - DOMAIN

Community of practice: workshop

Employment office

Education

BranchFuture employee

Customer

Decrease unemployment

Job

Qualified graduates

Standards, social benefits and image

Being served

McDonald’s Academy

Qualified employees

Community of practice: Linked In

Domain

1. Determine the goal and subject of the cop

2. Define desired content

3. Coordinator/moderator

Community of practice: Linked In

Community

4. Define desired partners

5. Open a LinkedIn-account (10 min)

6. Fill-in your profile (1,5 hour)

7. Create a group (10 min)

8. Invite desired partners inside your network (30 min)

Community of practice: Linked In

Practice

9. Care for starting content/mobilise top-influencers

10.Monitor the use and take actions ACTIVATE

11.Evaluate (also amongst participants)

Tutorial LinkedInhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsXZ5ET9-bA

LinkedIn Group on communities of practicehttp://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3663751

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