What+is+a+Community+of+Practice?


 * [[image:Picture2.wmf width="105" height="81"]]A Community of Practice**:
 * 1) Focuses on a domain of shared interest.
 * 2) Members have a certain level of competence and knowledge of the domain.
 * 3) Members interact and learn together by engaging in joint activities, forming a "learning community".
 * 4) In a practice-based learning community there is a focus on continually improving one's practice.

The advent of ICT has made possible the development of communities online where "people now particpate in online communities to share their expertise, experiences and knowledge. Some of these communities can be considered as online CoPs (Wenger, McDermott and Snyder, 2002), which facilitate individuals to create, refine, share and use knowledge effectively".
 * On-line Communities of Practice**

From //Literature Review and Synthesis: Online Communities of Practice.// Kwok Wing Lai, Keryn Pratt, Megan Anderson and Julie Stigter Ministry of Education, 2006.