What are "communities of practice"? - Nicole Brown | Box of delight | Scoop.it
The origins of communities of practice:
In their 1991 publication Lave and Wenger discussed situated learning and created the concept of communities of practice. Their interpretation of learning was that we all learn “on-the-job” or at least in the specific context we operate within. The diagram demonstrates how there is a core and periphery or fringes of practice.