Communities of practice online: Reflection through experience and experiment with the Webheads community of language learners and practitioners

 Week 2

January 27 - February 2, 2003

Issues Discussed in Week 2

What are communities of practice?
How do communities form online?
What conditions lead to emergence of communities of practice?
How do communities of practice operate?

The top row of the table below gives links to the main pages for this session. The other links in the table go to the individual topics discussed this week. Since the discussion of the Definition of CoPs was so lengthy, I divided it into 3 consecutive parts.

Hope it is useful!

Chris Jones


CoP Session Portal

Vance's Week 2 Portal

WIA Index

Yahoo Group
Week 2 folder

Assignment

Definitions 1

Thoughts about and
Aspects ofCoPs

Silences in Chat

Readings

Definitions 2

Making Surveys / Forms

Body Language

Examples of Chris
Johnson's Graphic

Definitions 3

Politically Correct Discussion Topics

Size of CoPs

Experiences with CoPs

Characteristics of CoPs

Why NOT Continue with CoP