CoP

Frankly, I was totally engrossed in Prof Hung’s talk. How did he make his talk so unbelievably interesting? The fact that his topic is high level (the notes was so high level with so many “bombastic” words..actually, the truth is that my vocab is poor), made it even astonishing. He was so passionate about this area. His motivation and excitement can really be translated into the audience. I must really learn from him to make my workshops more inspirational.

I remember him sharing with us this quote: Practice is the best teacher and the community the best learning environment. – John Seely Brown (Chief Scientist Xerox Parc)

Hmm… community - the best learning environment…It triggers me to reflect about how I conducted experiential learning in those overseas CIPs. I could have done more and the next time I do conduct such expeditions, I will try out new ideas to enhance the learning experience.

He gave us a very detailed guide to initiate a CoP. There are three types of Community of Practice – task-based, practice-based and knowledge-based. Frankly, there are still many things that I do not understand. I must say that I sort of did injustice to his superbly carried out lecture. Perhaps, I was too engrossed with trying to figure out some of the terms that he had used in his presentation and in his notes. His checkerbox puzzle was also quite interesting too.

Perhaps CoP is an area that we can tap on to evaluate if our workshop participants have put into practise what they have learnt...