1. Lisa Endersby @lmendersby #NASPA17
Networked Knowledge:
Professional Development and Learning in Online Communities of Practice
Lisa Endersby
@lmendersby
#NASPA17

2. What is a Community of Practice?
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Joint
Enterprise
“Domain” of the community; What binds the community together
Mutual Engagement
Interacting in/as a community; Establishing norms & relationships
Shared Repertoire
Community “output”; resources, routines, stories

3. What Does This Look Like Online?
Relational Proximity (Amin & Roberts, 2008)
Power & Status
Access & Accessibility

4. What is Professional Development?
Learning what
Learning how
Learning to be
Learning about
Knowing that
Duguid, P. (2005). “The art of knowing”: Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society, 21(2),

5. Mapping Professional Identity

6. Knowledge Networks Distributed Cognition
Knowledge is distributed across multiple individuals, environments, and artefacts (Gunawardena et al., 2009)
Not all networks are communities of practice
CoPs “entail identification with a mutually negotiated competence around a community of practice” (Farnsworth, Kleanthous, & Wenger-Trayner, 2016, p. 143)

7. Mapping Professional Identity

8. The Virtual Community of Practice
Where did your idea(l)s of “professional identity” come from?
How are they reinforced?
How are they shared or “taught”?

9. Final Thoughts
Recognize the complexities of & between “your” professional identity and “the” professional identity
Professional development is a process, not an event
Communities are not just spaces & places, but emerging ‘sites’ for social learning

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11. References
Amin, A., & Roberts, J. (2008). Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice. Research Policy, 37,
Duguid, P. (2005). “The art of knowing”: Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society, 21(2),
Farnsworth, V., Kleanthous, I., & Wenger-Trayner, E. (2016). Communities of practice as a social theory of learning: A conversation with Etienne Wenger. British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(2),
Gunawardena, C. N., Hermans, M. B., Sanchez, D., Richmond, C., Bohley, M., & Tuttle, R. (2009). A theoretical framework for building online communities of practice with social networking tools. Educational Media International, 46(1), 3-16.
Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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