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Double-layered CoP model of online learning

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Description

The double-layered CoP model conceptualizes online learning as "interlinked processes of participation and socialization in multiple communities across online- and offline-''layers'' of learners' lives". It was originally developed by incorporating CoP principles into an online teacher education course addressing divisions between teachers' online learning and their classroom teaching. The model guides online course designers to expand the perceived boundaries of the course environments they design to include learners' offline learning contexts, rather than focusing exclusively on building a single community within an online course.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • The course must explicitly guide students to choose and develop one of their existing communities into a supportive CoP, as a student-driven process

Constraints

  • The author states the suggested principles are more relevant and applicable to online course design than face-to-face course design

Target Learners

  • adult online learners in higher education, particularly in-service teachers and working professionals

Learning Goals

  • authentically constructivist learning through participation and socialization in communities of practice

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Kyungmee Lee. (2018). Everyone already has their community beyond the screen: reconceptualizing online learning and expanding boundaries. Educational Technology Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-018-9613-y
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title Double-layered CoP model of online learning
description The double-layered CoP model conceptualizes online learning as "interlinked processes of participation and socialization in multiple communities across online- and offline-''layers'' of learners' lives".
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