I love collaborative learning!
Topic 3. Learning in communities, networked, collaborative learning. Oh, my goodness. I feel like I'm in my element. I was so excited to jump head first into this topic. So excited in fact that I put my hand up to lead our group's efforts when engaging with the content. So let's break it down. Communities, networking, collaboration, and learning, all of the things I live and breathe in my everyday life, both personally and professionally. With an interest in professional identity formation (particularly healthcare professionals), and the social context in which it forms, two main theories that I see applying to this topic are Wenger’s Communities of Practice theory(Wenger, 1998); and Bandura’s Social Cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986). Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly (Wenger, 1998). At the heart of Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) is the social contex...
