Xi\u2019an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) in China recently welcomed social and community learning experts Etienne and Beverley Wenger-Trayner and have made videos of their talks and workshops available online.<\/p>\n
The videos – recorded over a three day visit during which the pair were keynote speakers at the University’s International Colloquium – are all available online.<\/p>\n
Each offers a short insight into the sessions delivered around social learning and communities of practice as approaches to teaching.<\/p>\n
Both are global leaders in the field. Etienne has authored and co-authored seminal articles and books on learning, including Situated Learning <\/em>(1991)\u00a0<\/em>where the term ‘community of practice’ was coined.<\/p>\n A ‘community of practice’, as Wenger describes on the pair’s\u00a0website <\/a>is a group of people ‘who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.’<\/p>\n He has also published\u00a0Communities of Practice <\/em>(1998),\u00a0\u00a0Cultivating Communities of Practice<\/em> (2002), and Digital Habitats<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n Beverly is a learning consultant who specialises in social learning systems.<\/p>\n She has worked with international organizations such as the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the International Labor Organization, and The World Bank.<\/p>\n