Resources & Best Practices
Best Practices to create a Community of Practice
The following info-graphic summarizes best practices to plan, create and implement a community of practice.
Core Resources
A community of practice has the potential to:
Creating Communities of Practice [https://www.communityofpractice.ca/] resource created by the Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (2016). Review Getting Started, Encouraging Participation , Growing Knowledge tabs for further guidance.
Communities of Practice Design Guide. Retrieved from https://www.abcee.org/sites/default/files/communities_of_practice_design_guide_0.pdf
Additional Resources
If interested, see below for additional resources on CoPs.
Bates, T, Bates, A (2019), Communities of Practice, Teaching in a Digital Age. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/chapter/6-7-experiential-learning/
Cambridge and Suter (2005). Community of practice design guide. https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2005/1/nli0531-pdf.pdf
Communities of Practice Design Guide. Retrieved from https://www.abcee.org/sites/default/files/communities_of_practice_design_guide_0.pdf
Creating Communities of Practice – Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (2016). Retrieved on August 2022 https://www.communityofpractice.ca/
Christine, L, Webne-Behrman, H, Johnson, J, Merrill, M, Schneider, T Creating, (n.D) Reinvigorating or transforming a community of practiceCommunities of Practice Guide, Retrieved from https://www.talent.wisc.edu/home/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=B6rgxakCMtI%3D&portalid=0
Blankenship, S.S., & Ruona, W.E. (2007). Professional Learning Communities and Communities of Practice: A Comparison of Models, Literature Review. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED504776.pdf
Gedak, L (2021), Dissertation Thesis on Communities of Practice
Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation (Ser. Learning in doing: social, cognitive, and computational perspectives). Cambridge University Press. https://bibliotecadigital.mineduc.cl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12365/17387/cb419d882cd5bb5286069675b449da38.pdf?sequence=1
Wenger, E. (2014). Communities of practice: A brief introduction. https://wengertrayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/06-Brief-introduction-to-communities-ofpractice.pdf
Wenger, E. (2009). A social theory of learning. In Contemporary theories of learning (pp. 217-240). Routledge. Chapter 15
Wenger-Trayner, E., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015). Introduction to communities of practice: A brief overview of the concept and its uses. https://www.wenger-trayner.com/introduction-to-communities-of-practice/