Virtual Community of Practice - Definition and Overview

To some a virtual Community of Practice is a misnomer as the original concept of a Community of Practice (CoP) was based around Situated learning in a colocated setting. However, with increasing Globalization and the continued growth of the Internet many now claim that virtual CoPs do exist. For example, some claim that a wiki (such as Wikipedia.org) is a virtual CoP.

See Also

• Community of Practice
• Virtual community
• Virtual team

External Links

• [Communities of Practice: Going One Step Too Far? (http://www.aim2004.int-evry.fr/pdf/Aim04_Kimble_Hildreth.pdf)] A critical review of virtual CoPs
• [Where is the Action in Virtual Communities of Practice? (http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/papers/commdcscw00.pdf)] Another critical review of virtual CoPs
• [Communities of Practice: Going Virtual (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/13kimble.pdf)]
• [Distributed Design Teams as Communities of Practice (http://www.ub.es/5ead/PDF/13/Pemberton3.pdf)]
• [Virtual Communities of Practice: Differentiated Consequences for Individuals in Two Organisational Contexts (http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/chaireecosavoir/pdf/NRC04-02A.pdf)]