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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Education Week

How Professional Learning Communities Benefit Students and Teachers

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. The primary purpose and function of the ...
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 ...
Cal Alumni Association

How Communities of Practice Can Support Teachers

In classrooms around the world, educators strive to nurture not only students’ academic skills but also the qualities that help them thrive more generally as dynamic people, namely character strengths ...
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 ...
unr.edu

Living Learning Communities (LLCs)

In these communities, students with shared academic, social and cultural interests live on the same floor and attend courses together. This experience is considered a "high-impact practice," promoting ...
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 ...
HR Dive

Practice makes perfect: A primer on communities of practice

Communities of practice are not a new concept for HR professionals. But with emerging tech changing how work is done — and where work is done — some leaders seek to support and grow these ...