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Practice-based Communities

Practice-Based Communities is a type of virtual community distinguished by its focus on shared professional or personal practices, where members collaborate and exchange knowledge through sustained engagement in collective activities and experiential learning.

273

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15.1K

Citations

694

Authors

352

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Publications

273

Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement.

Shirley M. Hord · Journal of Virology · 1997 · 1.2K citations

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Attending to Problems of Practice: Routines and Resources for Professional Learning in Teachers’ Workplace Interactions

Ilana Seidel Horn, Judith Warren Little · American Educational Research Journal · 2009 · 744 citations

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Locating learning in teachers’ communities of practice: opening up problems of analysis in records of everyday work

Judith Warren Little · Teaching and Teacher Education · 2002 · 666 citations

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Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

Lester Raff · American Journal of Clinical Pathology · 1999 · 575 citations · Full text

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Learning from others at work: communities of practice and informal learning

David Boud, Heather Middleton · Journal of Workplace Learning · 2003 · 563 citations · Full text

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Authors

694

  1. JM
    John M. Westfall

    University of Colorado Denver, United States

    3 publications · 213 citations

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  2. JM
    Jacquelin McDonald

    University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    3 publications · 101 citations

    3

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  3. CS
    Cassandra Star

    Flinders University, Australia

    3 publications · 101 citations

    3

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  4. IH
    Ileana Hamburg

    Westfälische Hochschule, Germany

    3 publications · 54 citations

    3

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  5. DA
    Demosthenes Akoumianakis

    Centre for Technological Research of Crete, Greece

    3 publications · 51 citations

    3

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Institutions

352

  1. University of Wollongong

    Wollongong, Australia

    6 h-index

    15 publications

    449 citations

  2. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    300 citations

  3. The Open University

    Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    221 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    382 citations

  5. University of Southern Queensland

    Toowoomba, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    79 citations

  6. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    426 citations

  7. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    197 citations

  8. Nanyang Technological University

    Singapore, Singapore

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    228 citations

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Venues

  1. Teaching and Teacher Education

    5 publications · 949 citations

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  2. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

    JCEHP · 5 publications · 358 citations

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  3. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

    4 publications · 96 citations

    4

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  4. Technology Pedagogy and Education

    4 publications · 193 citations

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