Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Team 4:
Luay Askar
David Cunha
Lisa Emanuelson
Kalsoom Sanad Shah
a. Collaborativism is the foundation for Online Communities of Practice (OCoP) and states
that learning can be and is a social activity with knowledge creation through communal
knowledge building and understanding.
b. Online Communities of Practice diverge from Collaborativism in that OCoP are not
moderated by an instructor or teacher and that the community directs itself to learn what
is necessary to address the issue or problem at hand.
a. Collaborative Learning Theory is an inductive theory where learning takes place outside
the classroom and includes the way we learn throughout our lives. Hrdy (2009)
mentioned that the ability to intentionally collaborate defines the fundamental nature of
the human being. Based upon this theory, the Online Community of Practice (OCoP) was
established.
b. The social indicators for the success of any OCoP, also called the social discourse,
demonstrates how well the OCoP is developing socially.
c. Social success of any OCoP is measured by the activity and sustainability of its members.
Economic gain is measured through whether the final outcome has a direct influence on
society.
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d. The influence of technology on any OCoP includes the quality and ease of use of an
OCoP forum and open source educational environment. Technology further influences
scientific advances through efficiency and speed of communication. Therefore, the
challenge for the designer is not only computation but also pedagogical.
3. Positive Contributions
b. The OCoP is totally against the Behaviorist approach. Behaviorists believe that
systematic and step-by-step instructions are essential for learners to perform an assigned
task, whereas, in an OCoP approach, there are no set instructions or directions to perform
a task.
c. The OCoP approach has no proper feedback process where the learner receives guidance
from a teacher. While other approaches like Behaviorist and Cognitivist approach,
believe that frequent and thorough feedback is very important for learners because it can
reduce errors.
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d. In comparison with Behaviorism, the OCoP has no assessment or evaluation process
because this is a very informal learning environment or setting. The Behaviorists believe
that the environmental factors (stimuli) affect the observable behavior (response).
According to Behaviorists, the learning occurs from the consequences of behavior. If
there is no proper assessment or evaluation of a learning process, the learning process
will not take place correctly.
a. 5,000 BC the development of communication and collaboration among humans who were
then able to collaborate on survival, defense, child rearing, and community building. This
eventually developed into guilds and apprenticeships that indoctrinated novice learners to
the culture and practices of the trade. Apprenticeships and informal learning strategies are
the precursors to many different brands of collaborativist practices including
Communities of Practice, and subsequently Online Communities of Practice (OCoP).
c. 1972, Murray Turoff developed an early web conferencing tool used online.
d. Dr. Linda Harasim and Dr. Dorothy Smith, 1986, first online course for credit through the
University of Toronto “Women and Computers in Education”.
e. 2008, the first massive open online course (MOOC) was conducted by George Siemens,
University of Manitoba “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge”
a. Communicates collaboratively to exchange ideas and attain the knowledge that each
member requires to enhance learning and to complete projects.
d. Provides the team with a collaborative learning environment through activities such as
information gathering, idea organization, intellectual convergence, and possible
application.
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e. Shares several core commonalities but not necessarily workplace.
Learning.
Building knowledge.
Solving problems.
Generating new schools of thought and practices where most of the members
knew little of one another directly (Brown & Duguid, 2000, p.190).
i. In this way the team’s version of OCoP is centered around discovering new ways to
function as a OCoP and apply the OCoP framework to new situations.
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7. Attached 5P Analysis Rubric.
Accounted
For?
Y = Yes
Element of Motivation N= No Comments
N/A = Not
Applicable
? = Cannot
Determine
Presentation
The theory considers whether material Y In collaborative theory the OCoP
is relevant to needs and goals of the members have a common interest,
learner. apprenticeship.
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Practice
The theory supports opportunities Y In the OCoP approach, members
being provided to develop proficiency share or develop several core
in application of the skill, knowledge, commonalities. Members typically
ability or concept share: a common language or set of
problems; common training or
experience; a common way of
working or doing things.
The theory supports practice activities, N/A This theory is all about practicing
to include repetition and spiraling, through the community. Repetition,
designed to develop automaticity in spiraling and automaticity are not
responses and execution if appropriate relevant in this case.
The theory requires that practice is Y Members of the OCoP, join the
relevant to needs and goals of the community for certain goals
learner (apprenticeship or knowledge
acquisition), and members won’t
join unless the OCoP is relevant to
their needs. Similarly the OCoP will
not retain members who are not
committed to the goals of the
OCoP.
The theory requires that practice be Y Practice could be part of this theory,
designed to lead to correct response. but not all applications of this
theory will necessarily include
practice.
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The theory encourages application of Y OCoP is entirely about application,
the skill, knowledge/ability or concept through sharing of practices and
being learned. knowledge by the OCoP members.
Participation/Collaboration
Theory supports synchronous or Y OCoP launched as a group that
asynchronous review of posted share commonalities. Meetings can
products be face to face or online and can be
both synchronous and/or
asynchronous.