The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice Export

@incollection{CLEE_2_16, abstract = {This chapter asks whether a large wiki can be considered a Community of Practice (CoP) and whether or not this is a useful question to ask. The focus of the chapter is the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, an on-going creation of adult basic education teachers, administrators and researchers. The ALE Wiki has a core group of very active contributors, over 700 registered users, and more than 720 pages of content. The chapter includes a description of choices the organizers made when constructing the wiki and how those choices create the potential for the ALE Wiki to create a small CoP at its centre. The chapter uses the concept of CoPs as a heuristic to examine the multi-layered participation structure of the wiki. The conclusion is that while the ALE Wiki as a whole cannot be considered a CoP, the concept is a useful way to identify some of the strengths of the wiki and to note the limitations of working with such a large group.}, address = {Charlotte, NC}, author = {Jacobson, Erik}, booktitle = {Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators}, chapter = {16}, citeulike-article-id = {2662162}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_16.html}, editor = {Kimble, Chris and Hildreth, Paul}, keywords = {adult\_education, adult\_literacy\_education, book, clee, legitimate\_peripheral\_participation, lpp, mentoring, scalability, web\_20, wiki}, pages = {327--346}, posted-at = {2008-04-12 20:47:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Information Age Publishing}, title = {The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_16.html}, volume = {2}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - CLEE_2_16 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2662162 N2 - This chapter asks whether a large wiki can be considered a Community of Practice (CoP) and whether or not this is a useful question to ask. The focus of the chapter is the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, an on-going creation of adult basic education teachers, administrators and researchers. The ALE Wiki has a core group of very active contributors, over 700 registered users, and more than 720 pages of content. The chapter includes a description of choices the organizers made when constructing the wiki and how those choices create the potential for the ALE Wiki to create a small CoP at its centre. The chapter uses the concept of CoPs as a heuristic to examine the multi-layered participation structure of the wiki. The conclusion is that while the ALE Wiki as a whole cannot be considered a CoP, the concept is a useful way to identify some of the strengths of the wiki and to note the limitations of working with such a large group. AD - Charlotte, NC EP - 346 TI - The Adult Literacy Education Wiki as a Virtual Community of Practice PB - Information Age Publishing VL - 2 T2 - Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators SP - 327 KW - adult_education KW - adult_literacy_education KW - book KW - clee KW - legitimate_peripheral_participation KW - lpp KW - mentoring KW - scalability KW - web_20 KW - wiki AU - Jacobson, Erik A2 - Kimble, Chris A2 - Hildreth, Paul PY - 2008/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.com/CLEE/Book_2/Chapters/Chapter_16.html ER -