Education Week

Networks for Learning: The Community of Practice

Life is at base a network. It thrives on connection. We all know this, experientially, because we are alive! And when we are not feeling alive or lively it is often because we are disconnected, cut ...
Forbes

What Is A Community Of Practice? (And Why You Need One)

Founders gathered at the French start-up incubator La Station F, an example of a community of practice. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, he carried a flag from the Explorers Club in ...
Purdue University

Today: Active Learning Community of Practice meeting to focus on instruction using inclusive experiential practices

Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, clinical associate professor of human development and family studies, will facilitate an interactive exploration of the intersection of experiential education with diversity and ...
Hope College

Communities of Practice

A community of practice is a group of cross-divisional faculty and instructional staff who are interested in collaboratively learning about and integrating new teaching practices or technologies that ...
Education Week

What Is An Authentic Professional Learning Community?

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. Here she answers an educator’s question about ...
Forbes

Communities Of Practice Can Be An Organization's Superpower

Much ink has been spilled over the importance of lifelong learning. An Albert Einstein quote, “When you stop learning, you start dying,” has been trending on Instagram and TikTok—spaces where you can ...
Purdue University

Purdue InterCultural Learning Community of Practice schedule of events for fall 2023

Purdue University’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research offers a community of practice for Purdue faculty and staff who have a passion for or a responsibility for ...
IndustryWeek

Communities of Practice and Change Management: Part 1

The community of practice (CoP) is an old idea for solving modern problems. In fact, CoPs are a fantastic tool for change management and the learning that goes with it. In this post and my next one, I ...
The Hindu

Faculty development: How Communities of Practice can foster continuous learning

Human capital development through the learning and development vertical in higher education is a strategic investment every organization should consider as part of its institutional growth. In a world ...
C&EN

Chemistry Communities of Practice

Thanks to a collection of "communities of practice" across chemistry subdisciplines, instructors are finding new ways to connect and engage with peers online and in person. In addition, they are ...
CONTRACTOR

Communities of Practice

Sometimes while teaching we become the ones who are taught. From time to time we get reminded of our roots, and in a flash the building blocks of our industry's' composition and structure are laid ...