Learning Community | Northeast Food Knowledge Ecosystem

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Aligning with our knowledge ecosystem goals for continuous “virtuous cycles of improvement” in regional food systems work, support for several types of inter-related and networked communities of learning is a core focus of NEFKE. These include (drawing on the work of Wengner and others):

  • Communities of Practice: a group of people that take part in a common activity, talk and share information about this activity and define themselves in relation to it.
  • Communities of Interest: a group of people that come together to address a problem of interest to all.
  • Task-Based Community: a group of people that works together to accomplish a defined task. They may or may not be from the same CoP.
  • Knowledge-Building Community: a group of people that works together to produce a body of knowledge.
     

Documentation Type:

Glossary