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Community management is becoming a lot more common at all sorts of organizations – driven by adoption of people doing more and more online and the social media tools that allow for easy conversation and collaboration.

not just technical standards but also standard expectations and understanding of what community management is and what should be expected of it

Many of the ways we have of talking about learning and education are based on
the assumption that learning is something that individuals do. Furthermore, we
often assume that
learning 'has a beginning and an end; that it is best separated from the
rest of our activities; and that it is the result of teaching' (Wenger 1998: 3).
But how would things look if we took a different track? Supposing learning is
social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life?
It was this thought that formed the basis of a significant rethinking of
learning theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s by two researchers from
very different disciplines - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. Their

model of
situated learning proposed that learning
involved a process of engagement in a 'community of practice'

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The National Research Council of Canada's Institute for Information Technology (Learning and
Collaborative Group) has started a research and development project exploring the Personal Learning
Environment. The project researches how new technologies can be used in a personalized informal
learning environment and focuses on two dimensions. The first dimension is the pedagogical: given
the new affordances offered by web technologies, how can access to a wide variety of learning
opportunities best be managed in an online environment? The second dimension is technical. Given a
set of desired types of connections, what technologies can be assembled to best provide seamless
access to a large variety of educational resources and services?

Stephen Downes, the project leader: