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Exploring the Potential of Communities of Practice for Learning and Collaboration in a Higher Education Context
2012
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
This paper examines the potential of communities of practice (CoP) as vehicles that promote learning and collaboration within organizations. Based on the idea that enhancing these capabilities will have an impact on organizational functioning, we present a qualitative study of five CoP in an educational setting. By analyzing eighteen interviews we identified learning and collaboration as the primary benefits of community activities. Learning included the promotion of formal and informal
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.385
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