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Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge - Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice. Book resume

David Knowles sent me this link today. This is what we've been saying all along, so most of it is preaching to the choir. The key piece I see in it is that his list of critical technology includes an LMS! Here's the quote: Device-agnostic technology that provides access to the Internet and appropriate Learning Management Systems, coupled with a committed teacher, is often all that is needed to help students become powerful consumers and producers of knowledge.

This book offers an introduction to actor-network theory for educators to consider in three modes. One mode is the introduction of concepts, approaches and debates around actor-network theory as a research approach in education. Another mode is a showcase of educational studies that have employed ANT approaches in classrooms, workplaces and community settings, drawn from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. These work with ANT in highly diverse ways, often bending and twisting ANT ideas to better approach the educational question at hand whether it focuses on policy critique, curriculum inquiry, engagements with digital media, change and innovation, issues of accountability, or exploring how knowledge unfolds and becomes materialized in various settings

Thank you for sharing this; I just pre-ordered it!!

Dissertation written by a CP2 member and presented via Dissertation Fest (original version). Found in the CP2 Knowledge Base in the Papers and books contributed by CPsquare members and friends section.

I had started reading her paper about a month ago. She graduated from Capella. I also spoke to her and she is very nice and helpful.

Bereiter's is the third model of networked learning that Hakkarainen et al compare in their book "Communities of Networked Expertise" along with Nonaka & Takeuchi and Engestrom

Mark Warschauer is one of the most knowledgeable in the field of developing online education. His advice on what to share in your Statement of Purpose for a Ph.D program resonates with some insight in what NOT to tell :-) " People who are reading a SOP for Ph.D. programs care about two things: (1) Do you have the potential to be an outstanding scholar? And (2) are your research interests a good match for the Ph.D. program and its faculty? Anything beyond these two things is superflous. Your SOP should thus be directed to getting these two things across. "

"Smart people or smart contexts?"

I am interested in how and whether tacit knowledge can develop in a vCoP. This is a summary of Sternberg's view of intelligence, including practical intelligence, which is a version of tacit intelligence

Innovation Communication in Multicultural Networks: Deficits in Inter-cultural Capability and Affect-based Trust as Barriers to New Idea Sharing in Inter-Cultural Relationships..