This presentation describes an inventory to measure Communities of Practice. It gives background to the theory of CoP and the development process of the inventory.

1. Community of Practice Inventory:
How to measure a CoP?
Karsten D. Wolf & Andreas Rausch
Didactical Design of Interactive Learning Environments
Communities & Technologies 2007
Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Thursday, 28.06.2007
cc by Karsten D. Wolf 2007

2. Faculty for educational science
Didactical design of
interactive learning environments

5. Tools for supporting CoP Ongoing integration
of work & learning
collaborative &
individualized
search
Documents & Collaboration &
Practice problem solving
Knowledge repositories
Project
N2N-Publishing & spaces
Content Sharing
Knowledge Social
filtering structures
Social bookmarking Online communities
Collaborative news- FOAF- and
filtering & aggregation networking platforms
Formal Learning Conversation
Email &
E-Learning
Discussion
spaces
groups
Fleeting interactions
Synchronous
interactions
cc by Karsten D. Wolf 2007

6. Model for explaining group learning
process in informal settings

7. Model for explaining group learning
process in informal settings

8. Model for explaining group learning
process in informal settings

9. From description to nurturing
1990 2000
First description Adaption for “Cultivating” &
companies “Nurturing”
Lave / Wenger Brown / Duguid Wenger
Snyder & McDermott
Ethnographical Consulting Design
fieldstudies

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11. Goals
• diagnosis & identification
• classification
• design & evaluation of supporting measurements
• differentiate between persons with different roles
within the community
• clearify and improve the theory

12. Problems of item development
There is a fire in the middle of our community,
which warmth draws us together…

13. Problems of item development
You can sit on a bench right beside the playfield
and watch the action

14. Starting point
• „tools“ from consultants
COP@Work • www.wimip.de
• focused on technical implementation
KAT • Andriessen & Verburg
• focused on team diagnosis
F-A-T • Kauffeld
TCI • Anderson / West
• focused on learning culture
LKI • Sonntag

16. Analysis of CoP theory
structural principles of principles of
CoP
Wenger et al elements support design
(1998) (2001) (2002)
Smith / Coenders community „barometer“
Typaldos 12 principles of collaboration
Hernandes /
critical success factors
Fresneda
9 design strategies for Op
Kim
communities

17. We started with
12 Principles of Collaboration
Typaldos 2001

18. CoPI Version 0.1
α α
Version 0.1 Version 0.2
Zweck .61
Identität .76
Reputation .46
Lenkungsbefugnis .17
Kommunikation .41
Gruppen .71
Umgebung .70
Randbereiche .71
Vertrauen .75
Austausch .54
Entäußerung .77
Vergangenheit .79
N = 43

19. CoPI Version 0.1 ➙ 0.2
α α
Version 0.1 Version 0.2
Persönliches Interesse .47
Zweck .61 Gemeinsames Interesse .63
Persönliche Bekanntheit .66
Identität .76 Zugehörigkeit .85
Reputation haben .36
Reputation .46 Reputation erlangen .41
Regeln vorhanden .55
Lenkungsbefugnis .17 Führungsrollen vorhanden .60
Führungsrollen erwerben .76
Kommunikation .41 Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten .71
Gruppen .71 Untergruppen .21
Umgebung .70 Umgebung / Speicher .62
Randbereiche .71 Randbereiche / Lurking .67
Vertrauen .75 Vertrauen / Offenheit .76
Austausch .54 Gegenseitigkeit / Austausch .75
Gemeinsame Praxis .45
Entäußerung .77 Rituale .79
Vergangenheit .79 Vergangenheit .73
N = 43 N = 94

20. CoPI Version 0.2 ➙ 0.3 (part)
Version 0.2 Version 0.3
α α
Being Expert vs. Layman .76
Being Informal Leader .71
Reputation haben .36 Being Formal Leader .85
Experts present .73
Experts known .78
Reputation erwerben .41 Gain Reputation .73
Rules .82
Regeln vorhanden .55
Rules enforced .50
N = 76

21. Explorative factor analysis
Aspiration Knowledge .88
Individual Interest (P) .79
Aspiration Power .79
Aspiration Reputation .77
Aspiration Community .76
Participation .74
Sense of belonging (I) .65 .50
Learning .57 .48 .53
Voluntariness .57 -.45
Being Expert vs. Lay .46
Gain Leadership -.84
Management Hierarchy -.82
Informal Leadership -.78
Experts included -.70
Duration of membership -.50 .41 -.42
Trust / Openess .79
Experts recognized .66
Shared Practice .66 .48
Gain reputation -.46 .62
Mutuality / Exchange .43 .59
Rituals .88
Sense of shared past .81
Familiarity .73
Rules .47 .65
Repository .81
Common Interest .66
Being an informal leader -.85
Being an formal leader -.75

22. Explorative factor analysis
Aspiration Knowledge .88
Goals and interests
Individual Interest (P) .79
Aspiration Power .79
Aspiration Reputation .77
Aspiration Community .76
Participation .74
Sense of belonging (I) .65 .50
Learning .57 .48 .53
Voluntariness .57 -.45
Being Expert vs. Lay .46
Hierarchy
Gain Leadership -.84
Management Hierarchy -.82
Informal Leadership -.78
Experts included -.70
Duration of membership -.50 .41 -.42
Exchange
Trust / Openess .79
Experts recognized .66
Shared Practice .66 .48
Gain reputation -.46 .62
Mutuality / Exchange .43 .59
Rituals and getting
Rituals .88
Sense of shared past .81
to know each other
Familiarity .73
Rules .47 .65
Repository .81
Common Interest .66
Being an informal leader -.85
Being an formal leader -.75

23. The „12 principles“ are not factors!
The „bleed“ into each other
F1
F3
F2
Text
F5
F4
F2
F3
F4
Subscales not satisfactory

24. Discussing
the instrument

25. Community
- Familiarity - Trust / Openness
- Sense of belonging - Management hierarchy
- Reputation - Informal leadership
- Rules - Leadership
- Possibility to communicate - Boundaries / Lurking
Practice
Domain
- Common interest - Communication
- Repository - Mutuality / Exchange
- Learning - Rituals
- Experts present - Sense of shared past
- Experts known - Participation
- Sub Groups - Rules enforced
Individual Roles and Goals of Members
- Aspiration for knowledge - Being Expert vs. Layman
- Aspiration for reputation - Being informal leader
- Aspiration for community - Being formal leader
- Aspiration for power - Individual interest
- Duration of membership

26. Groupwork
•
Community
4 mini-groups - Familiarity - Trust / Openness
- Sense of belonging - Management hierarchy
- Reputation - Informal leadership
• community, domain &
- Rules - Leadership
- Possibility to communicate - Boundaries / Lurking
practice Practice
Domain
- Common interest - Communication
- Repository - Mutuality / Exchange
• indididual roles & goals
- Learning - Rituals
- Experts present - Sense of shared past
- Experts known - Participation
- Sub Groups - Rules enforced
• what is missing? Individual Roles and Goals of Members
- Aspiration for knowledge - Being Expert vs. Layman
• are items
- Aspiration for reputation - Being informal leader
fitting? - Aspiration for community - Being formal leader
- Aspiration for power - Individual interest
- Duration of membership

27. Want to measure
Your community?
CoPI
Contact me at
wolf@uni-bremen.de
http://www.ifeb.uni-bremen.de/wolf

28. CoPI Version 0.2 ➙ 0.3 (part)
Version 0.2 Version 0.3
α α
Being Expert vs. Layman .76
Being Informal Leader .71
Reputation haben .36 Being Formal Leader .85
Experts present .73
Experts known .78
Reputation erwerben .41 Gain Reputation .73
Rules .82
Regeln vorhanden .55
Rules enforced .50
N = 76

29. CoPI Version 0.2 ➙ 0.3
Version 0.2 Version 0.3
α α
Individual Interest .85
Aspiration Knowledge .81
Persönliches Interesse .47 Aspiration Power .89
Aspiration Reputation .88
Aspiration Community .86
Gemeinsames Interesse .63 Common Interest .69
Persönliche Bekanntheit .66 Familiarity .84
Zugehörigkeit .85 Sense of Belonging .80
N = 76

30. CoPI Version 0.2 ➙ 0.3
Version 0.2 Version 0.3
α α
Management Hierarchy .85
Führungsrollen vorhanden .60
Informal Leadership .84
Führungsrollen erwerben .76 Gain Leadership .84
Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten .71 Possibility to communicate .62
Untergruppen .21 Sub-Groups .31
Umgebung / Speicher .62 Repository .75
Randbereiche / Lurking .67 Boundaries / Lurking .59
Vertrauen / Offenheit .76 Trust / Openess .67
N = 76

31. CoPI Version 0.2 ➙ 0.3
Version 0.2 Version 0.3
α α
Gegenseitigkeit / Austausch .75 Mutuality / Exchange .83
Gemeinsame Praxis .45 Shared Practice .78
Rituale .79 Rituals .76
Vergangenheit .73 Sense of shared past .82
Duration of membership .83
Being Expert vs. Layman .76
Being an informal leader .71
NEU
Being a formal leader .85
Learning .84
Participation .88
N = 76