efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       25 November 2003 Bridging the Gap between academic and professional, with communities of practice Inspired by the article "using communities of practice to enhance student learning: examples and issues", written by Edward Bilodeau from McGill University, I made an attempt to look further than the relationship between the academic domain and the professional domain. In his article, Edward talks about the role that communities (of practice) can play in enhancing the student learning (increasing the capabilities of the individual) while providing a mutual learning opportunity for the academic community as well as the professional community. Or: teachers can learn from the professionals, and vice versa. According to his research, the major barriers that have crippled similar initiatives to bridge the gap between academics and professionals has failed: power, status and perceives objectivity.   Edwards Bilodeau 'bridging the gap' community of practice role I do not disagree with Edward and think that there is a ground for further research in this area. However, I do believe that his paper does not stand alone. A more detailed article on the Trias Community should be posted here soon. This happened at 4:55:53 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] Social Networking in Business 2.0 Stowe Boyd talks in Darwin Magazine Online about a social networking article he read in the November edition of Business 2.0. Though there is not much news in his observations of the growing attention to the social network marketplace, he outlines three (in his opinion) critical barriers to its success: Critical mass (more is better) Buy in and pay back (WIIFM) Here versus There (SN integrated in business technology, not separately sold) Stowe's article once again tells me that the market for social networks is very hot - given the amount of attention it has been having in mainstream business magazines since the summer. This happened at 3:09:09 PM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. November 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30             Oct   Dec Blog categories: (All) Innovation Social Networks Blogging Knowledge Garden: Communities Social Networks Blogroll: Daily reads Blog of CI Patti Anklam Andy Boyd Georg Siemens Lilia Efimova Debby at Pepperdine Renee Hopkins Dave Pollard on BI Ton Zijlstra (Engish) Ton Zijlstra (Dutch) Social software channel Stephanie Allen's COP^2 Matt's blog Joe Corthrel Ross Mayfield Sam Ruby Staurt Henshall Terry Frazier Chris McRae David Gurteen 25 most recent: Double - loop learning and social learning Systems... Social networks and country-to-country transfer: d... Efios launched Rail Safe The Google Legacy Yahoo! patents (parts of) social networks: Method ... Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving The reciprocity of innovative capabilities Knowledge Garden and Research whiteboard to RSS Social Network Analysis at BHP Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ...