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XplanaZine: Distributed Communities of Practice in E-Learning

By Michael Feldstein | September 7, 2004

This is a nice overview piece on using distributed communities of practice to boost your design/production teams, although there are a few oddities. It doesn’t seem written quite right to perfectly target either corporate or higher ed applications (though it could be very easily modified for either). On the corporate side, it’s a bit too…federated. [...]

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Weblogs and Communities of Practice

By Michael Feldstein | August 19, 2004

Here’s a thoughtful post comparing communities of practice to networks of weblogs, apparently distilled from a discussion group at the Blogwalk conference. The short summary:

Weblogs are more respectful of their authors and of their audience
Weblogs are better connecting tools
Communities are better social structures for problem-solving, knowledge stewarding and innovation
Communities of practice are better social structures [...]

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