Filmed in August 2011 at the American Institutes for Research, in this interview excerpt Etienne Wenger stresses to Darren Cambridge the importance of considering multiple dimensions of identity at multiple levels of scale when considering how online communities of practice can build learning capacity and increase efficiency in education.
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I am a science educator and I believe that we need to promote global biodiversity education.
I LOVE the concept of efficiency at different levels of scale. The idea that a tightly focused CoP has an efficiency for the members in that they know that they will find their time in the community to bring value to them is critical, and often overlooked. And it is true that there is a tension between that kind of efficiency and one that takes a broader view and worries about valuable conversations about the same topic being isolated from one another in the web-o-sphere.
How can we use technological tools to help connect those conversations? How might social networking and tools like “liking” an such to create the connections across these tightly defined communities so that conversations that can benefit from each other can find each other?