A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact...

the history of social work. The field of community practice social work encompasses community organizing and community organization, community building,...

An online community of practice (OCoP), also known as a virtual community of practice (VCoP), is a community of practice (CoP) that is developed and maintained...

of practice (often abbreviated as NoP) is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. This concept, related to the work on communities of...

immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to people's identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family...

model based on the speech community as a fluid community of practice. A speech community comes to share a specific set of norms for language use through...

Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice? is a 2009 book by British historian Dan O'Sullivan, published by Ashgate Publishing. The book takes an academic...

applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming...

same practices. These theories were not originally applied to the Internet or television. According to Anderson, the creation of imagined communities has...

In a community of practice, duality refers to a tension between two forces which become a driving force for change and creativity. Wenger uses the concept...

population. Adopting a communities of practice approach, Eckert studied the stylistic development of a heterosexual marketplace or field of gender difference...

change. Community of circumstance Community of inquiry Community of interest Community of position Community of place Community of practice Community of purpose...

A community of circumstance is similar to a community of practice, except that it is driven by position, circumstance or life experience rather than a...

large, of belonging to a virtual community. At the same time, it showed that job engagement positively influences virtual communities of practice engagement...

may be a limited definition. Communities are defined as people coming together in pursuit of common aims or shared practices through any means, including...

A community of position is distinguished from a community of practice in that it tends to be more personally focused. Communities of position built around...

Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture...

Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) is a group of people who seek to make the Semantic Web operational in their respective settings...

discourse community and having evolved from forums and web forums, knowledge communities are now often referred to as a community of practice or virtual...

efficiently. Communities of purpose can address a collective need, rather than a self-interest or defined goal typical of communities of practice and other...

of practice (often abbreviated as NoP), originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by...

e-Learning Developers' Community of Practice or ElCoP is practice developed following a decision of European air navigation service (ANS) training providers...

anthropological study of human behavior in the context of technology-mediated work, or within communities of practice to the ecological psychology of the perception-action...

Soaking is a sexual practice of inserting the penis into the vagina but not subsequently thrusting or ejaculating, reportedly used by some Mormons, also...

support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design, architecture and information science to...

first proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger as a model of learning in a community of practice. At its simplest, situated learning is learning that takes...

newcomers become experienced members and eventually old timers of a community of practice or collaborative project. LPP identifies learning as a contextual...

as the GAMP COP (community of practice) of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE). The goal of the community is to promote the...

and Wenger's early work, are often termed communities of practice. Roth and Lee claim that this led to forms of praxis (learning and teaching designs implemented...

explain: "Some communities of practice may develop more distinctive ways of speaking than others. Thus, it is within communities of practice that linguistic...