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Background to communities of practice

The term ‘community of practice’ (Lave and Wenger 1991) has become very popular recently, though it refers to a very old idea. Let’s first examine what it means.

We’ll show you a definition below. But before that, think about the two words: ‘community’ and ‘practice’. What do they mean by themselves? What might they mean together? 

Ok, did you think for a little? Now, compare your idea with the definition below

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Now here comes a H5P task for you to think about.

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Could this be a task box?

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Features of a community of practice

The term ‘community of practice’ (Lave and Wenger 1991) has become very popular recently, though it refers to a very old idea. Let’s first examine what it means.

We’ll show you a definition below. But before that, think about the two words: ‘community’ and ‘practice’. What do they mean by themselves? What might they mean together? 

Ok, did you think for a little? Now, compare your idea with the definition below

Could this be a task box?

Here is a task for you to complete.
Would we want H5P contained within a task box?

Discuss your own communities of practice

Ok, I’m sure you are already members of some communities of practice. Let’s now go across to our own community of practice on Discord and discuss this. Click the button below to take you to the channel for this topic and read the questions there.

Here is a reflection section

Before you go, we need to do some reflection.

Reflection box

Not sure why I can't get the light bulb to the left of the text, but no probs because it works in Moodle

  • Why is it useful to have some kind of introduction to everyone at the start of the course?
  • What other tools or techniques could we use other than Padlet?