Ideas and suggestions towards building the DISCUSS Community of Practice
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I totally agree, there is no "one way" !
hi George, thanks for sharing your ideas. I think that everybody can agree, that learning from others' experience in the course of mobility actions can be of great value, and it seems even more promising if we can connect it to existing European traditions like the "journeyman". However, I also guess that there can be no one-best-strategy to transfer innovations. Education and training are dynamic and open systems. They function in context, such as local traditions, learning cultures, institutional setups and belief systems. Thus, a solution found in one place might remain rather meaningless in another, and innovative solutions might be mainstream elsewhere. At best the effectiveness and impact of a practice can explained by its fitness for purpose, whether this be the achievement of a strategic goal or a solution to a problem, its compliance with the local context, practices and routines in place, and the local conventions determining the “value” of a certain practice. Taking these...
Dear Randolph and Brian, happy to join your conversation. I hope I can bring my small contribution. You say that « beneficiaries, such as local learner communities or educational institutions usually do not have the capacities to identify, critically analyse and develop the mechanisms required to successfully adopt innovations ». This is right, but our experience shows that knowledge exchange and transfer of innovation should go viral through physical encounters ! We were very surprised by seeing how spontaneously Ecett trainees bring innovations back from their internships abroad. This is a result of the personalized matching between the trainee and the experts but also of the « journeyman learning philosophy». To me, the biggest obstacle for transfer of innovations is bridging the gap between hearing or reading (theoretically) about someone else innovation and being involved in a global and integrated learning situation, which means : I hear, I see, I ask, I hear other colleagues...
Ideas and suggestions towards building the DISCUSS Community of Practice
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Reflections on Communities of Practice | Audio series by Chahira Nouira.
New in the library: 'Communities of practice as stimulating forces for collective learning'. The purpose of this research publication is to get a clear view on how we can judge groups in relation to the characteristics of a community of practice (CoP), and the presence of collective learning in these groups.
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The EACEA just published the results of the EPALE call, according to which the European EPALE platform for the next 2 years will receive 5.5. million Euro funding. Wow! Big money going into Lifelong Learning
Had a 3hrs skype conference with Chahira Nouira in the afternoon. During the session we also did a follow up of the Munich conference. A bit exhausted now, but will try to wrap up things later in the evening and share our thoughts with you.
Dear all, last Friday Brian Dillon and I discussed a range of options towards developing our community further. As a result of this discussion, we concluded that complementary to reflection and spreading of project results, we should also have a closer look at the transfer of project outcomes into educational and social practice. Findings from recent K4 projects show that European projects often start from the implicit assumption that good products and dissemination strategies are decisive for the impact of projects, and once these factors are given they become fast-selling items: "Look what great things we have produced, don’t you want to try them out?” However, there is little evidence for this really happening. As a matter of fact, the bulk of products developed in European products never makes its way to the world of education and learning, and their "impact" remains limited to a small number of partners or experts associated with the partnership. The KA4 project Xploit recently...
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Just preparing a new blog entry on the local dimension of communities of practice. Thanks to Norman for sharing his invaluable expertise with us.
Prof. Norman Longworth in this blog entry presents three case studies of communities of practice, all of which have developed from local and regional initiatives on lifelong learning around the world. In his understanding a community of practice is a group of people which learns how to improve its knowledge, its behaviour and its influence as a result of interaction between each other and with other groups. The case studies make evident that successful communities of practice promote 5 basic ideas: a strong belief that the actions taken will be of benefit to all communities, the participation of many people in their development, clever leadership that persuades rather than directs, a common sense of purpose with a community ethic and a willingness to learn from experience and to keep on learning.
Stay tuned ...
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Can a mentoring plan help retention in online communities? Our project, Common Spaces (www.discuss-community.eu/developing-basic-skills-a…) foresees the creation of a VCoP with a varied provision of e-mentoring plans for the various sub-communities, based on their specific needs (professional, academic, special needs such as disadvantaged groups, etc.). Do you have any experience in the use of e-mentoring programs in VCoPs? Do you believe they work?
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Dear Andrea Spila,
Thomas Fischer suggested to include the "CommonSpaces" project in our project section. If you want I can prepare a short presentation based on the welcome text found on your website.
Best
Randolph
Great online meeting! Thanks to all participants for highly valuable contributions. Have a nice weekend
I would like to comment on the ambiguity in the title of our project. I made the same experience as Randolph when I discussed with the participants of the EDEN Annual Conference about to DISCUSS. They understood first that we are working on CoPs in general and not on CopS FOR Lifelong Learning.