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  • catspyjamasnz
    just abt every slot had pres abt CoPs
  • catspyjamasnz
    metaphor of poet who half-drunk writes poem which 20 yrs later is published in NY times to great acclaim
  • catspyjamasnz
    concept of CoP was coined to move away from conceived direct link betw apprentice & master
  • catspyjamasnz
    community is as close to truth as human beings are going to get (?) not sure i got that right
  • catspyjamasnz
    what is happening w/ CoPs in higher education?
  • catspyjamasnz
    what does that mean for staff development in our institutions and skills we need
  • catspyjamasnz
    what does engagement mean, as characteristic of learning?
  • catspyjamasnz
    Community seems to bring visions of heavenly peace, but that was not how Wenger envisioned it
  • catspyjamasnz
    If you say learning is social, then you need to expect human emotions, likes, dislikes
  • catspyjamasnz
    there is a relatively recent insight...in 2002 W wrote abt the more growing, important role of nurturer
  • catspyjamasnz
    more recently role is split in 2, leader and convenor,
  • catspyjamasnz
    facilitator as combined umpire & coordinator?Q from audience
  • catspyjamasnz
    facilitator + manipulator = facipulator
  • catspyjamasnz
    good community coordinators know a lot, those who fail put too much emphasis on public aspect
  • catspyjamasnz
    those who are good community facilitator work best when they are social artists (need to look up this term)
  • catspyjamasnz
    if you are good community facilitator, then you are always working towards building the CoP (all roads lead to rome, aargh that was mine...)
  • catspyjamasnz
    what seems to work well in higher ed (working w. academics) - is pair of staff developer plus academic peer as CoP leaders
  • catspyjamasnz
    having change in facilitation role can change nature of CoP, so sharing that role may make acceptance of CoP easier, more flexible
  • catspyjamasnz
    Managers don't like that - that CoPs depend on people. But you can't take that out, personality matters
  • catspyjamasnz
    change in facilitator is important process to manage
  • catspyjamasnz
    richness of leadership, on different levels within CoP
  • catspyjamasnz
    how important relationships were. Thinking of social nature of learning
  • catspyjamasnz
    brings richness and difficulty of learning in practice (Foucault)
  • catspyjamasnz
    "i can live on too much ambiguity to be a manager - but friend said i don't just live w/ it, i thrive on it" in reaction to diff CoP forms
  • catspyjamasnz
    fact that it started as analytical concept and not managerial is good.
  • catspyjamasnz
    "if you're going to dance with a bear, you don't decide when to stop"
  • catspyjamasnz
    a discussion forum in an online space is NOT a CoP. Some CoPs may have one, but in itself it is not
  • catspyjamasnz
    Basic model - a social discipline of learning
  • catspyjamasnz
    Issues of trust, of voice become very important
  • catspyjamasnz
    that is why they need to negotiate their own domain - why are we here?
  • catspyjamasnz
    learning, what does it mean to be a sponsor of CoP, where you have power, but not control
  • catspyjamasnz
    importance of learning in this way - to make practice public, visible, inspectable
  • catspyjamasnz
    some using project-based CoPs which have definite lifespan
  • catspyjamasnz is
    sustainability/ long lifespan evidence of CoP succes (q form audience)
  • catspyjamasnz
    when do you revive it by pumping oxygen - when do you let it die?
  • catspyjamasnz is
    it dead or does it just need a new impetus (speaker, live event or other)
  • catspyjamasnz
    if community comes and goes, how do you sustain the changes and learning in practice? Possibly co-production to go beyond the community
  • catspyjamasnz
    tensions between language of CoPs and language of organisations (KPRs, etc)
  • catspyjamasnz
    sponsorship/support structure model
  • catspyjamasnz
    community coordinators live halfway between existing and new structires
  • catspyjamasnz
    end up with constellation of CoPs. This means members of learning citizenship - multimembership
  • catspyjamasnz
    it means ou have roles of contributo, broker, convener - let go
  • catspyjamasnz will
    be increasingly important - as our world complexifies and at same time becomes smaller
  • n2teaching says
    I like it when you live blog. this is great stuff. CoP? Communities of Practice?
  • catspyjamasnz
    this is a late response to an early post? Yes CoPs is Communities of Practice

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