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Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy in ICT-Delivered Courses. MITM6: Neda mafakheri-Mandana sadeghi saboor Ehsan kazem- mehdi bostanchi. www.Modiriran.ir. Introduction to CoPs – some definitions. Theory: what are CoPs?. Reflection: how do CoPs relate to me?.
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Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomyin ICT-Delivered Courses MITM6: Neda mafakheri-Mandana sadeghi saboor Ehsan kazem- mehdi bostanchi www.Modiriran.ir
Introduction to CoPs – some definitions... Theory: what are CoPs? Reflection: how do CoPs relate to me? Application: how can CoPs affect online teaching? Resources Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… session overview www.Modiriran.ir slide 1
“A CoP is a group of people who share an interest in something, and come together to develop knowledge around this topic, in order to use it in practice.” Wenger, E. 1991 “A distributed community of practice (CoP) consists of a group of people who communicate with each othersynchronously and/or asynchronously, concerning a topic of common interest.” Jones, C. 2002 Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… introduction physical virtual www.Modiriran.ir slide 2
know your place... from vertical to horizontal... “The goal of the community (CoP) is to advance the collective knowledge of the group about the subject area at the same time that the individual's knowledge is increasing. Thus, all participants have a genuine need to learn from each other.” Jones, C. 2002 Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… introduction and... ??? www.Modiriran.ir slide 3
explicit & implicit knowledge community knowledge Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… theory www.Modiriran.ir slide 4
negotiated goals voluntary roles: assigned - - - - emergent Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… theory www.Modiriran.ir slide 5
social scaffolding reflection artefacts negotiated meaning Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… theory www.Modiriran.ir slide 6
scaffolding constructivist competencies creative practice Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… application www.Modiriran.ir slide 7
students self skills Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… application www.Modiriran.ir slide 8
Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… reflection Do you belong to any informal networks, similar to CoPs? How are they similar/different? Consider: - Are they online / f2f? - Are they focused on implicit/explicit knowledge? - What are the main roles and who holds them? - Is your participation voluntary or imposed? - What are the goals (if any)? How are they arrived at? - Does your network produce any ‘artefacts’? - Do negotiation and reflection have a role? Do you see any area(s) in your professional life where an online CoP might be helpful to you? www.Modiriran.ir slide 9
www.tcm.com/trdev/cops.htm www.ewenger.com/ewCoPToC.html www.learningalliances.net/CP_bib/ groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac/ Communities of Practice: Promoting Learner Autonomy… resources Thanks! www.Modiriran.ir slide 10