·What are the characteristics of a successful learning community?
·How are successful communities facilitated and maintained?
·What lessons can be learnt from existing learning communities?
·What type of learning community will suit your organisation or situation?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.
- ISBN13 9780335212835
- Publish Date 16 October 2004 (first published 1 January 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 June 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English