Access to Open Educational Resources: Report of a UNESCO OER Community Discussion
UNESCO's international Community on Open Educational Resources has been active since 2005. It connects some 900 individuals in 109 countries to share information and discuss issues surrounding the production and use of Open Educational Resources ? web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research. The community returned to the issue of access... more
Impact of Communities of Practice (CoP) on Inter-Firm Alliance Research Teams
The need for faster, more flexible and less risky ways for organisations to expand their capabilities and competencies increasingly lead to the formation and proliferation of networking strategies and partners. Understanding the potential contribution that CoP memberhip can provide within these teams is a step towards developing and refining a strategy to support and enhance the speedy... more
Keys to Successful Communities of Practice (Networks)
The guidelines below are drawn from the book "Learning to Fly - Practical knowledge management from leading and learning organisations" by Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell), and sets out a number steps to launching, energising and sustaining communities of practice (networks) in an organisation. more
'Communities of Practice' and the Social Process of Knowledge Creation: Towards a New Vocabularly for Making Sense of Organizational Learning
The idea of knowledge as the source of competitive advantage has been celebrated in the management literature for some time. However, our understanding of how knowledge emerges and develops in the actual work practices is still relatively limited. The argument of this paper is that an approach called ‘communities of practice’ offers a relatively coherent view of the social processes of... more
The Saide ACEMaths Project: Final Report
A reflective report on the Saide ACEMaths project, which piloted a collaborative approach to the sourcing, adaptation and publication as Open Educational Resources (OERs) of existing suitable materials for use in a variety of South African teacher education programmes. more
