Communities of practice; an unending source Learning for Living: Innovations in career education Leonardo da Vinci, Transfer of Innovation Bram van den Hoogen,

Bram van den Hoogen Age: 36 Current position: Consultant marketing & communication KPC Groep Bio: Staff member board of governors group of high schools Strategist advertising company Consultant marketing & communication pharmaceutical wholesaler

Program ‘community of practice’ 1.Introduction 2.Social media 3.Communities of practice 4.Workshop

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Community of practice: definition Group of people who share an interest, a craft, and/or a profession. It is through the process of sharing information and experiences with the group that the members learn from each other, … … and have an opportunity to develop themselves personally and professionally.

Community of practice: elements Domain Methods Stories Cases Tools Documents CommunityPractice Relations Interaction Respect/trust Common history and identity Subject Perspective Goal/ambition E. Wenger (2007)

Community of practice: case Institute: Teacher Training (Fontys - university of applied sciences) Community: busy parttime students with job, kids, etc. Goal: developing didactics for the internship school (50% offline, 50% online via COP) Use: other students give each other feedback via COP Evaluation: -Much interaction (lively community) -Content used as online portfolio (job aspirations) -Participants regard the COP as a valuable asset during their study. Ruud de Moor Centrum (2007)

Succes factors Involve endusers in the start-up OWNERSHIP Right mix of activities (documents, news, meetings, etc.) Skilful and reputable coordinator. Update frequently (documents, discussions, etc.) Don’t forget to meet OFFLINE English (makes it easy to share (internationally) in the project)

Community of practice: output Improving educational outcomes Meaningful exchange of expertise on the level of employees Harnessing business as a partner in education Increasing ownership under participants Auto-documentation of projects

Community of practice: the project Check the online career-learning café active project of Leonardo (Launched by Bill Law) Overall community of practice: documents, presentations, online magazine Build your own local community of practice for sharing information about L4L-projects in your country Sharing knowledge regardless cost, distance and time

Community of practice: workshop 1.Grab a piece of paper 2.Draw your organisation in the middle 3.Position stakeholders L4L round your organisation (education, business, governance, social organisations, etc.). 4.Determine the individual goals of these organisations 5.Search for a common goal - DOMAIN

Community of practice: workshop Employment office Education Branch Future employee Customer Decrease unemployment Job Qualified graduates Standards, social benefits and image Being served McDonald’s Academy Qualified employees

Community of practice: Linked In Domain 1.Determine the goal and subject of the cop 2.Define desired content 3.Coordinator/moderator

Community of practice: Linked In Community 4.Define desired partners 5.Open a LinkedIn-account (10 min) 6.Fill-in your profile (1,5 hour) 7.Create a group (10 min) 8.Invite desired partners inside your network (30 min)

Community of practice: Linked In Practice 9.Care for starting content/mobilise top-influencers 10.Monitor the use and take actions ACTIVATE 11.Evaluate (also amongst participants)

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