Virtual Learing Communities

Argumento de Virtual Learing Communities

This user-friendly guide is written to help managers, professionals and learners, planning, facilitating or participating in online learning communities, as part of a structured learning programme, as an approach to continuous professional development, as a means of improving performance at work or as a dynamic approach to innovation and collaborative working.

The book is relevant to senior mangers with a responsibility for strategic planning and change management. This can include new work practices involving working in multi-professional teams across traditional boundaries. It aims to engage readers in identifying key issues in relation to their own work situation and prompts readers to find their own solutions.

Virtual Learning Communities provides practical guidance and includes extensive examples, case studies and activities. It is key reading for those involved in e-learning courses, professional trainers and staff developers with a responsibility for CPD, and professionals involved in facilitating new approaches to group work.0List of figures
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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction to learning communities
Chapter 2 Models of learning communities
Chapter 3 Virtual communication tools and meeting environments
Chapter 4 The community lifecycle: Foundation and induction phases
Chapter 5 The community lifecycle: Incubation phase
Chapter 6 The community lifecycle: Improving performance, implementation, closure or change phases
Chapter 7 Community participation
Chapter 8 Social learning in virtual learning communities
Chapter 9 Time and participation in virtual learning communities
Chapter 10 Working in partnership
Chapter 11 Evaluation

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