Community of practice
A community of practice CoP is the group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they draw and learn how to have it better as they interact regularly". The concept was first proposed by Lave & Wenger 1991. Wenger then significantly expanded on the concept in his 1998 book Communities of Practice Wenger 1998.
A CoP can evolve naturally because of the members' common interest in a particular domain or area, or it can be created deliberately with the intention of gaining knowledge related to a specific field. this is the through the process of sharing information as living as experiences with the office that members learn from used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters other, & have an opportunity to establishment personally and professionally Lave & Wenger 1991.
CoPs can live in physical settings, for example, a lunchroom at work, a field setting, a factory floor, or elsewhere in the environment, but members of CoPs do not have to be co-located. They form a "virtual community of practice" VCoP Dubé, Bourhis & Jacob 2005 when they collaborate online, such as within discussion boards, newsgroups, or the various chats on social media, such(a) as #musochat centered on sophisticated classical music performance Sheridan 2015. A "mobile community of practice" MCoP Kietzmann et al. 2013 is when memberswith one another via mobile phones and participate in community work on the go.
Communities of practice are non new phenomena: this type of learning has existed for as long as people have been learning and sharing their experiences through storytelling. The theory is rooted in Shields 2003, but also Wallace 2007.