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Ulster ShowCase : Refining the Structure . Dr Sarah Maguire Dr Alan Masson Dr Peter Nicholl. Workshop Structure. Overview of purpose Activity: refining the structure – scoping the requirements for users. Innovating alone . Continue the conversations. …… learn and develop your practice.
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Ulster ShowCase: Refining the Structure Dr Sarah Maguire Dr Alan Masson Dr Peter Nicholl
Workshop Structure • Overview of purpose • Activity: refining the structure – scoping the requirements for users
Continue the conversations.... …… learn and develop your practice
Communities of practice (Wenger, 2006) http://www.ewenger.com/ • What are they? “Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”
Three characteristics • The domain • The community • The practice
What do they look like? Types of activities: • Problem solving • Requests for information • Seeking experience • Reusing assets • Coordination and synergy • Discussing developments • Visits • Mapping knowledge and identifying gaps
Meaningful Dialogue and Dissemination University teachers “have small ‘significant networks’ where private discussion provided a basis for conceptual development and learning, quite different from the ‘front stage’ of formal, public debate about teaching.” (Roxå and Mårtensson, 2009) Challenge: How can we share these practices further so they impact upon the practice of others?
Activity 1: • What features would you want included and why? • What do you not want?
Activity 2 • As a contributor is there anything additional needed?