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Bolam, R. et al (2005). Creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities.

Coughlan, P. and Coghlan, D. (2002). Action Research for Operations Management. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 22(2), 220-240.

Department of the Navy. Communities of Practice: Development Model. (2001).

Goldsmith, M (2005). Team Building without Wasting Time. Link and Learn Newsletter,

Hildreth, P., Kimble, C., and Wright P. (2000). Communities of practice in the distributed international environment. Journal of Knowledge Management, 4(1), 27-38.

Kahan, S. (2004). Engagement, identity, and innovation. Journal of Association Leadership, , 26-37.

Kondratova, I., and Goldfardb, I. (2004). Virtual Communities of Practice: Design for . ECPPM 2004,

Lave, J., and Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lesser, E., and Prusak, L. (1999). Communities of practice, social capital, and organizational knowledge. IBM Institute for Knowledge Management.

Lesser, E., and Storck, J. (2001). Communities of practice and organizational performance. IBM Systems Journal, 40(4), 831-841.

Manville, B. and Foote, N. (1996). Harvest your workers' knowledge, Datamation, 42 (7), 78-80.

Marcum, D., Smith, S., and Khalsa, M. (2002). BusinessThink. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, Inc..

McDonald, B., Stuckey, B., Noakes, N., and Nyrop, S. ( 2005). Breaking down learner isolation:
How social network analysis informs design and facilitation for online learning. AERA Montreal.

O'Donnell, D., Porter, G., McGuire, D., Garavan, T., Heffernan, M., and Cleary, P. (2003). Creating intellectual capital: a Habermasian community of practice introduction. 27, 80-87.

O'Hara, K., Alani, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2004). Identifying Communities of Practice: Analysing Ontologies as Networks to Support Community Recognition

Piele, E. and Briner, W. (2001). Team and organisational learning in a cross-functional community of
practice: the importance of privileging voices. Career Development International, 6(7), 396-402.

Riel, M., and Polin, L (2004). Learning Communities: Common Ground and Critical Differences in Designing Technical Support. In S. Barab, R. Kling, & J. Gray (Eds.). Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Seely Brown, J. and Solomon Gray, E. (1998), ``The people are the company'', Fast Company online: http:// www.fastcomany.com/online/01/people.html

Sloman, M. (2005). Training to learning. Training and Development, 59(9), 58-63.

Stamps, D. (1997). Communities of practice: learning is social. Training is irrelevant?. Training, 34(2), 34-42.

Thomson, R., Stuckey, B., Lipscome, D., and Mentis, M. ( 2004). Discourse Analysis and Role Adoption in a Community of Practice.

Thorpe, M., and Kubiak, C. (2005). Working at community boundaries: A micro-analysis of the activist's role in participatory learning networks. Studies in Education of Adults, 37(2), 151-166.

Thull, J. (2005). Implementing a collaborative approach to learning. Chief Learning Office, 4(8), 24-29.

Wenger, E (1997). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Wenger, E. (2005). Cultivating communities of practice: A start-up guide.

Wenger, E., McDermott, R.A., and Snyder, W. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: a guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

Wenger, E, McDermott, R.A., and Snyder, W. (2003, March 25). Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice. Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, 1-9.

Wenger, E., and Snyder, W. (2000). Communities of practice: the organizational frontier. Harvard Business Review. Jan-Feb, 139-145.

Yang, J (2004).Job-related knowledge sharing: comparative case studies. Journal of Knowledge Management. 8, 118-126.

Additional reading added after 10/2006

Piaget’s Constructivism, Papert’s Constructionism
Improving Knowledge Work Processes
Action Research Topic Identification and Research Planning

Websites

Communities of Practice (Wenger)

Communities of practice: introduction

Home page

Videotaped interview and lecture

Citation Machine Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.

APA Citation Styles

Action Research

Educational Action Research

Action Research & Evaluation Online (AREOL) Areol, action research and evaluation on line, is a 14-week public course offered each semester as a public service.

Social Research Methods

Learning Theory

Instructional Design Models

Center for Teaching & Learning

Reflections on Constructivism and Instructional Design

Instructional Design Theories Instructional theory describes a variety of methods of instruction (different ways of facilitating human learning and development) and when to use--and not use--each of those methods.

Collaborative Knowledge Networks The goal of this research project at the MIT Sloan Center for Coordination Science and the Center for Digital Strategies at Tuck at Dartmouth is to help organizations to increase knowledge worker productivity and innovation, by creating "Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs)."

Reusable Learning Objects

Constructivist Approach to Online Learning

Stolen Knowledge: John Seely Brown

Blogs

Learning Cicuits Blog Great resource for some discussion on informal learning theory.
Jarche: conversations at the intersection of learning, work, and technology.