scholarly journals Record Package guidance : best practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Spangler ◽  
Roger Fujan ◽  
Carl Broyles ◽  
Brian Baker ◽  
Justin Jameson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Technology Center ◽  
The Look ◽  
Work Structure

The CAD/BIM Technology Center receives numerous questions throughout the year regarding the development of a Record Package that shows as-built conditions. While the Center does produce Standards on the look and organization of CAD drawings that are used to show as-built conditions, users wanted guidance on the Record Package development. The Chicago District had undertaken the development of such guidance, but a formal document was never officially released. The CAD/BIM Community of Practice (CoP) Work Structure Committee finished this guidance and their efforts are reflected in this document.

Facilitator Toolkit for Building and Sustaining Virtual Communities of Practice

2011 ◽  
pp. 202-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Kimball ◽  
Amy Ladd
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Work Training ◽  
Virtual Communities Of Practice ◽  
Over Time

The boundaries of a Community of Practice (CoP) have changed significantly because of changes in organizations and the nature of the work they do. Organizations have become more distributed across geography and across industries. Relationships between people inside an organization and those previously considered outside (customers, suppliers, managers of collaborating organizations, other stakeholders) are becoming more important. In addition, organizations have discovered the value of collaborative work due to the new emphasis on Knowledge Management—harvesting the learning and the experience of members of the organization so that it is available to the whole organization. This chapter offers a practical toolkit of best practices, tips and examples from the authors’ work training leaders to launch and sustain a virtual CoP, including tips for chartering the community, defining roles, and creating the culture that will sustain the community over time.

scholarly journals Preliminary Look into the ICD9/10 Transition Impact on Public Health Surveillance

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hicks ◽  
Julie A. Pavlin ◽  
Atar Baer ◽  
David J. Swenson ◽  
Rebecca Lampkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Syndromic Surveillance ◽  
Public Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Icd 10

The "Preliminary Look into the Icd9/10 Transition Impact on Public Health Surveillance" roundtable will provide a forum for the syndromic surveillance Community of Practice (CoP) to discuss the public health impacts from the ICD-10-CM conversion, and to support jurisdictional public health practices with this transition. The discussion will be aimed at identifying conversion challenges, solutions, and best practices.

scholarly journals "Leave me alone so i can teach better": community of practice as the foundation to great teaching

POLIANTEA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Robert Bruner
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Teaching Knowledge ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Coordination And Collaboration ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

An alternate paradigm to school organization and teaching practice, which is not widely known, is to be explored to unders- tand what it is to teach under this approach. In opposition to the dominant paradigm –regarding instructors as solo artists- this other conception views the teaching task placed into a commu- nity, requiring some coordination and collaboration. Regarding this as its core idea, what sets a great teaching school apart is the self-awareness of cohesion, coordination, exchange of best practices, alignment of values around service to student learning, and sense of mission about being a good example to other instructors and schools. With the concept of “community of practice” being widely explored by both business and aca- demia, it was established that what made a firm resilient and profitable was its ability to learn and spread knowledge, that is to say: organizational learning and knowledge transfer. What distinguished the more successful service people?  They called one another when they encountered fresh problems, whereas the less successful people were loners. The core notion of this field is that greatness in an organization is more than a collec- tion of solo performances. A community of teaching practice looks like a psychologically safe environment where teaching is valued by the community and teaching knowledge is trans- ferred by both formal and informal means. Doing nothing about teaching is not an option.

scholarly journals Steppingstones to More Sustainable Public Libraries in Finland

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Ulla Pötsönen ◽  
Leila Sonkkanen ◽  
Harri Sahavirta
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Major Task ◽  
History Of ◽  
Expert Network

Public libraries in Finland have a strong history of cooperating and networking. Implementing SDGs and steering the action toward sustainability, however, has been so far carried out mainly out by individual libraries. A larger consensus or common guidelines are still missing, be it designing a new building, customer design thinking or rearranging internal workflows.           This is to be changed, hopefully serving as an example to readers´ communities. The report presented current cases and current best practices on initiatives and concentrated on finding a broader common ground on sustainability work. Helsinki City Library will act as a nationwide accelerator and common voice promoting the step marks toward greener libraries. A nationwide expert network and community of practice is to be established as well. As one example of the development, the tight cooperation between public libraries and basic education in Finnish society will be discussed. For historical reasons public libraries operate to a large extent as school libraries, so the task of supporting curriculum on sustainability topics is a major task for public libraries as well. What does the future of this collaboration and its possibilities look like?

scholarly journals COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE AS ONE OF THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF ORGANIZATION

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Veronica Veronica ◽  
Angellia Debora Suryawan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Private Bank ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Learning Problem ◽  
Small Organizations ◽  
The Stability

Many organizations in the world realize that to maintain the stability of an organization within a lot of turnover in human resources, Knowledge Management (KM) is a matter that cannot be forgotten. Since by storing the knowledge, organizations can continue to distribute the knowledge to people and to develop it into a practice of learning, problem solving, and then at the end it becomes a “Best Practice”. Sharing knowledge becomes the main reference in KM in large and small organizations. By multiplying the activities of knowledge sharing among employees in an organization, it can improve the competitiveness of the organization. All activities in knowledge sharing will be easier if it is formed in a Community of Practice (CoP). CoP can be regarded as a best method. In addition there are many benefits that can be spawned by it, such as in the development, dissemination of knowledge to the development of culture in an organization. The method in this paper uses literature study by describing best practices and case studies in a private bank in Indonesia. By forming the CoP, it is expected to motivate employees to share knowledge for the improvement of organizational performance.Keywords: organization, knowledge management, community of practice

scholarly journals Making the Transition as the New Copyright Librarian

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Regina Algenio
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Academic Librarianship ◽  
Educational Foundation ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The corpus of academic librarianship literature notes very little material in relation to the work of new copyright librarians. However, the number of academic libraries hiring librarians to fill these positions is increasing, and the need for such literature is real and pertinent. The purpose of this research is to assist incoming copyright librarians with practical, evidence-based guidance for colleagues just starting out in roles focused on copyright issues. The author drew from professional experience as a first-time copyright librarian at a Carnegie One academic institution in the United States. The author highlights the value of constructing a copyright educational foundation for the university community, cultivating a community of practice, establishing best practices around copyright questions and the utility of effective, vetted copyright resources. Understanding the finer details of a copyright librarian’s job are important, as academic libraries are hiring candidates for other scholarly communication positions, and the applicants are expected to know American copyright law.

scholarly journals Towards the Realization of the ICT Education Living Lab – The TechTeachers.co.za Success Story

10.28945/2157 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albertus A. K. Buitendag ◽  
Frederik Gerhardus Hattingh ◽  
Matt Hains
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
South African ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Living Labs

[The final form of this paper was published in the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology.] This paper presents the success story of the intuitive vision of an ICT high school educator in South Africa. The growth and evolution of a Community of Practice, towards a full-fledged living lab is investigated. A grounded theory study analyses the living lab concept and highlights some of the current challenges secondary high school ICT education face within the South African educational landscape. Some of the concepts, ideas, best practices and lessons learned in the establishment and running of two web based technologies to support secondary school ICT subjects is discussed.  The researchers present a motivation for the use of living labs to address some of the issues identified and highlights how the existing  platforms fits into bigger design.

scholarly journals Selected Aspects of Carbon Stock Assessment in Aboveground Biomass

Land ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Vilém Pechanec ◽  
Lenka Štěrbová ◽  
Jan Purkyt ◽  
Marcela Prokopová ◽  
Renata Včeláková ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Carbon Stock ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Landscape Matrix ◽  
Input Matrix ◽  
Stock Value ◽  
The Look ◽  
Scale Data

Given the significance of national carbon inventories, the importance of large-scale estimates of carbon stocks is increasing. Accurate biomass estimates are essential for tracking changes in the carbon stock through repeated assessment of carbon stock, widely used for both vegetation and soil, to estimate carbon sequestration. Objectives: The aim of our study was to determine the variability of several aspects of the carbon stock value when the input matrix was (1) expressed either as a vector or as a raster; (2) expressed as in local (1:10,000) or regional (1:100,000) scale data; and (3) rasterized with different pixel sizes of 1, 10, 100, and 1000 m. Method: The look-up table method, where expert carbon content values are attached to the mapped landscape matrix. Results: Different formats of input matrix did not show fundamental differences with exceptions of the biggest raster of size 1000 m for the local level. At the regional level, no differences were notable. Conclusions: The results contribute to the specification of best practices for the evaluation of carbon storage as a mitigation measure, as well as the implementation of national carbon inventories.

scholarly journals How journalism educators discuss journalism law in their community of practice : insights from a qualitative textual analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Leslie Klein
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Virtual Community Of Practice

Often, journalism teachers are the only ones at their school who do their job, and even when the positions are embedded in arts or English departments, it can be isolating. The Journalism Education Association's Listserv creates a virtual community of practice (CoP) for members to contribute to the shared knowledge of best practices in journalism education. The purpose of this research was to understand how middle and high school journalism educators discuss journalism law and its related topics on the Listserv to determine what additional legal resources might benefit the JEA community. This research, via qualitative textual analysis, examined how advisers used their CoP to build shared meaning of journalism law. The study found that journalism advisers primarily use their CoP for Discussing Developments, Documentation Projects, Problem-solving, and Requests for Information. The primary topics discussed on the Listserv were censorship and copyright. The way advisers discussed journalism law varied based on the topic, but most posts were reactions to things that had already happened, either in the news or to individual educators.

Cooperative Learning through Communities of Practice

2012 ◽  
pp. 189-199
Author(s):  
Emilio Lastrucci ◽  
Angela Pascale
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Mutual Engagement ◽  
Common Task ◽  
Traditional Training

A community made up of a group of individuals becomes a “community of practice” when a mutual engagement is established between its members. The mutual engagement unites the participants in the carrying out of a common task (Wenger, 1998). The main aim of a community of practice is to find the solution to a problem by sharing experiences (Midoro, 2002). This paper examines the definition, characteristics, management and effectiveness of communities of practice. They are understood as being communities of self-managed learning where professional development is not based on a pre-set training course but on sharing experiences, identifying best practices and helping each other face the daily problems encountered in one’s profession (Trentin, 2000). Such communities are useful in particular working environments as an opportunity to improve digital competences. In communities of practice, it is possible to encourage ways of co-building knowledge through teaching methods such as cooperative learning. Until now cooperative learning has been limited to traditional training contexts, but it can be realised via Web technologies.

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