Building Communities of Practice with Mark Otter
IMPACT LEARNING
English - February 27, 2020 05:05 - 1 hour - 57 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Society & Culture Philosophy learning education technology culture society online learning travel future of learning career change impact learning Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Producer: Julie-Roxane Krikorian
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
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Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find Mark Otter and Participate:
Participate on LinkedIn
Twitter @participate
Mark on LinkedIn
Twitter @markjotter
Mentioned in this episode:
Participate Learning (formerly VIF International Education)
Moodle - Open-source learning platform
Transitioning Between the Inner and Outer Loop by Simon Terry
Empatico - Connect your Classroom to the World
Listen to this episode and explore:
Childhood: Watching his parents study alongside their children to advance their education (2:57)
Studying evolutionary biology in college and becoming a teacher (5:29)
Mark's international teaching career (7:30)
Being a teacher in different countries: Canada, USA, UK (8:29)
Leaving teaching to become a researcher for VIF International Education (11:34)
Climbing the ladder at VIF from researcher to Chief Operating Officer (12:39)
Participate is born: how VIF became Participate Learning (14:22)
Participate: what it’s for and who it’s for (18:36)
What are the communities of practice (21:12)
Participate’s role in building and growing communities (26:06)
How Participate helps engaging members: Community personas and proven tactics (28:00)
The leaders of communities of practice (31:15)
The benefits of communities of practice vs other communities (33:01)
The benefits of time-bound learning experiences (35:47)
The people that Participate serves (40:01)
How the community helps the learners: being clear on the WHY behind the community (41:55)
Customized learning tools on the Participate platform (44:29)
The potential use of the Participate model for learning and development for corporations (47:14)
The importance of building communities with people, not for people (49:57)
The difference between cooperative learning and collaborative learning (52:27)
The biggest challenge: finding the right people who want to join these communities of practice (55:18)
What Mark sees as the future of learning and work (56:31)
What Mark wants to leave his Mark on during his lifetime (58:09)
Where to find Mark and Participate (1:00:59)
Maria's takeaways related to communities of practice (1:02:05)