Virtual Community of Practice

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?] A critical review of virtual CoPs
• [Where is the Action in Virtual Communities of Practice?] Another critical review of virtual CoPs
• [Communities of Practice: Going Virtual]
• [Distributed Design Teams as Communities of Practice]
• [Virtual Communities of Practice: Differentiated Consequences for Individuals in Two Organisational Contexts]