Books

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Digital habitats
Stewarding technology for communities
Etienne Wenger Nancy White John Smith
CPsquare Press
2009
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This practical book explores the increasing interweaving of communities and technology. It presents a framework for anchoring a technology configuration in the learning needs of a community. It introduces the role of technology stewards who can bridge between the life of a community and the constantly evolving potential of technology. |

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Cultivating communities of practice
A guide to managing knowledge
Etienne Wenger Richard McDermott William Snyder
Harvard Business School Press 2002 |
This practical book is targeted to leaders in organization who want to cultivate communities of practice as a way to manage knowledge. It explains why communities of practice are a key to managing knowledge. And it provides practical advice on the art of cultivating communities and on creating an organizational context to support communities. |

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Communities of practice
Learning, meaning, and identity
Etienne Wenger
Cambridge University Press 1998 |
This conceptual book lays out a social theory of learning centered on the concept of communities of practice.
Based an ethnographic study, it presents a broad framework for thinking about learning and knowing in social terms, exploring such concepts as meaning, boundaries, trajectories, generations, identity, identification, power, and many others. |
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Situated learning
Legitimate peripheral participation
Jean Lave Etienne Wenger
Cambridge University Press
1991
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In this short conceptual book, anthropologist Jean Lave and I first introduced the concept of community of practice.
Starting with an analysis five case studies of traditional apprenticeship systems, we observed how in each case a whole community served as a living curriculum for the newcomer. We called these communities “communities of practice.”
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Artificial intelligence and tutoring systems
Computational and cognitive approaches to the communication of knowledge
Etienne Wenger
Morgan Kaufmann Press (out of print)
1987 |
This was my first book.
It almost feels like something from another lifetime.
I wrote it in preparation for my dissertation, because I could not find a thorough reference for the field of intelligent tutoring systems.
These are artificial-intelligence systems designed for educational purposes.
When it came out, it was the first book to survey the field of intelligent tutoring systems in a systematic way.
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