{"id":7224,"date":"2023-08-07T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:04:25","slug":"a-5-part-community-of-practice-framework-for-educators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/a-5-part-community-of-practice-framework-for-educators\/","title":{"rendered":"A 5-Part Community of Practice Framework for Educators"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report from Achieving the Dream, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, the Online Learning Consortium, and Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae outlines a five-part community of practice framework \u2014 envisioning, designing, facilitating, evaluating, and sustaining.<\/p>\n

This framework emerges from an analysis of existing communities of practice in higher education and their common elements and processes. The framework is outlined in a comprehensive guide, Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A Playbook for Centering Equity, Digital Learning, and Continuous Improvement<\/a><\/em>. Users of the playbook will find strategies and resources for managing a community of practice with an emphasis on equity, digital learning, and continuous improvement. The playbook is accompanied by a literature review on communities of practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the playbook outlines in the introduction, communities of practice can take on a broad range of formats, membership structures, and agendas. What they have in common is a group of people who share information, experiences, and practices through collaboration and dialogue in a common area of interest. They typically emphasize sharing information and experiences, exploring similar problems and opportunities, and developing new knowledge.<\/p>\n

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From Communities of Practice in Higher Education: A Playbook for Centering Equity, Digital Learning, and Continuous Improvement<\/p><\/div>\n

Each section of the playbook includes numerous practical recommendations for organizers of communities of practice. A sample of those practical steps is excerpted and adapted below.<\/p>\n

Envision the community of practice<\/h2>\n

Envisioning includes asking who the community of practice is for and what participants and stakeholders need in order to feel like they are included and they belong. It also involves identifying the key issues the community is responsive to and the nature of the learning, knowledge, and tasks the community will steward.<\/p>\n