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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Journal

AIR Research: Deeper Learning Approach Shows Positive Student Gains

The idea that students need to develop a deeper understanding of content and the ability to apply what they learn in one area to another area are major premises of new learning standards, such as the ...
Boston College

Transforming Parishes Through Communities of Practice

This resource is a guide to using an STM Online: Encore presentation as a conversation starter with members of a faith community. Each part of the presentation may be used separately, in combinations ...
World Bank

Learning Beyond Borders: The Southeast Asia Planning Community of Practice

Communities of Practice (CoPs) are effective means to build capacities for development planning, providing venues for sharing best practices and learning from experiences of other countries. The ...