How should the knowledge and products created by the community be shared beyond the community? Figure 8: Example of exploratory questions and activities for a specific phase in the life cycle of a community of practice. Online communities of practice A common feature of the literature is the focus on social/online learning and online communities of practice. A typology of social forms for learning is shown in the example below. System Group Net Set Facebook Medium Very high Medium Facebook provides This is Facebook’s Facebook offers groups and group raison d’etre pages that people areas may set up for specific topics Twitter Very low High Very high There are third-party The Twitter’s hashtags “following” tools and ways to function in Twitter provide a powerful organise around sets, supports strong means of clustering but Twitter does not two-way links as around a single topic support explicit groups well as (more commonly) links Pinterest Low Medium Very high is no explicit Social networking As the name implies, support for groups is a feature, but Pinterest’s most seldom the main significant feature is means of discovery that it relates to of content on the shared interests site LinkedIn Medium Very high High LinkedIn offers closed This is LinkedIn’s It is common to seek interest groups that raison d’etre people based on are widely used categories of skills and interests that they supply Moodle, Very high Very low Low Blackboard Moodle courses are Use of Courses, especially and other archetypal group blogs and profiles open ones, provide LMS support tools with allow for very an anchor for systems
How should the knowledge and products created by the community be shared beyond the community? Figure 8: Example of exploratory questions and activities for a specific phase in the life cycle of a community of practice. Online communities of practice A common feature of the literature is the focus on social/online learning and online communities of practice. A typology of social forms for learning is shown in the example below. System Group Net Set Facebook Medium Facebook provides groups and group areas Very high This is Facebook’s raison d’etre Medium Facebook offers pages that people may set up for specific topics Twitter Very low There are third-party tools and ways to organise around sets, but Twitter does not support explicit groups High The “following” function in Twitter supports strong two-way links as well as (more commonly) links Very high Twitter’s hashtags provide a powerful means of clustering around a single topic Pinterest Low is no explicit support for groups Medium Social networking is a feature, but seldom the main means of discovery of content on the site Very high As the name implies, Pinterest’s most significant feature is that it relates to shared interests LinkedIn Medium LinkedIn offers closed interest groups that are widely used Very high This is LinkedIn’s raison d’etre High It is common to seek people based on categories of skills and interests that they supply Moodle, Blackboard and other LMS systems Very high Moodle courses are archetypal group support tools with Very low Use of blogs and profiles allow for very Low Courses, especially open ones, provide an anchor for
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