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		<title>Online Learning Communities: Time To Get Wet?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within a couple months of my hiring and having gained a better appreciation of what the SOG is all about, it became clear to me that something was missing&#8211;online Communities of Practice (CoP).  We were the great conveners&#8211;regularly bringing communities of practice together face-to-face to learn from us and from one another, and then they all went home&#8230;until we did it again.  I know this doesn&#8217;t capture the ongoing phone and email support we provide our clients, nor the collective toe we&#8217;ve stuck in the water, or knee-depth wading we&#8217;ve done with our listservs.  Some have even waded in quite deep with their wikis and blogs, but in my view, we&#8217;ve not yet realized the potential synergies of bridging the experience and expertise of our clients with that of our own in-house experts. Last year we submitted a grant proposal (unsuccessful) to lay the technical foundation for a NC Land Use Planners Community of Practice&#8211;an open forum for government practitioners to learn from each other as well as providing a common platform to engage with School of Government faculty and resources.  More than a portal where people come to find resources, a CoP is place where all can contribute resources, [...]


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