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Summary
Summary
·What are the characteristics of a successful learning community?
·How are successful communities facilitated and maintained?
·What lessons can be learnt from existing learning communities?
·What type of learning community will suit your organisation or situation?
This user-friendly guide is written to help managers, professionals and learners, planning, facilitating or participating in online learning communities, as part of a structured learning programme, as an approach to continuous professional development, as a means of improving performance at work or as a dynamic approach to innovation and collaborative working.
The book is relevant to senior mangers with a responsibility for strategic planning and change management. This can include new work practices involving working in multi-professional teams across traditional boundaries. It aims to engage readers in identifying key issues in relation to their own work situation and prompts readers to find their own solutions.
Virtual Learning Communities provides practical guidance and includes extensive examples, case studies and activities. It is key reading for those involved in e-learning courses, professional trainers and staff developers with a responsibility for CPD, and professionals involved in facilitating new approaches to group work.
Author Notes
Dina Lewis is the Head of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Hull. Her research interest is in work-based learning, based upon her extensive experience of working with public, private, community and voluntary organisations using learning technologies to support work-based learning and improved performance at work. She has extensive experience of working with senior managers within organisations and across regions to support the strategic implementation of e-learning.
Barbara Allan is a Senior Lecturer in Student and Management Learning in the Business School and Deputy Director of the Centre for Management and Organisational Learning at the University of Hull. Her previous experience includes managing academic and workplace libraries, and working as an independent researcher, trainer and author. Her research interests include independent learning to online communities of practice.
Table of Contents
| List of figures |
| List of tables |
| List of boxes |
| Acknowledgements |
| Chapter 1 Introduction to learning communities |
| Chapter 2 Models of learning communities |
| Chapter 3 Virtual communication tools and meeting environments |
| Chapter 4 The community lifecycle: Foundation and induction phases |
| Chapter 5 The community lifecycle: Incubation phase |
| Chapter 6 The community lifecycle: Improving performance, implementation, closure or change phases |
| Chapter 7 Community participation |
| Chapter 8 Social learning in virtual learning communities |
| Chapter 9 Time and participation in virtual learning communities |
| Chapter 10 Working in partnership |
| Chapter 11 Evaluation |
| References |
| Index |
