BERKLEY LABS TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENTOnline Communities of Practice (OCoP) Project

Joanne Deitsch

OMDE 610 Section 9040

10-November-2013

Introduction [1 of 2]• Organization• OCoP History• OCoP Success Factors

• Contextual Indicators• Social and Intellectual Indicators

• Distance Education (DE) Theory• Online Collaborative Learning (OCL)

• Function• Knowledge Building• Assessing OCoP Success

(Berkeley Lab, 2011)

Introduction [2 of 2]

Examining the Training and Development OCoP against the OCL Theory aids understanding about how to assess OCoPs. This is important as assessing digital artifacts comprises an important skill for 21st century workers.

Organization• Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab, n.d)• Founded 1931• In 1939, Lawrence won the 1939 Nobel Prize in

physics for inventing a unique particle accelerator called a cyclotron

• After Lawrence’s death in 1959, the lab renamed after him

(Berkeley Lab, n.d.)

(Berkeley Lab, 2011)

OCoP History• Training and Development OCoP (Berkeley Lab, 2011;

Berkeley Lab, 2012)• Founded in 2010• Targeted for training and employee development professionals• Shares best practices, knowledge, materials• Professional OCoP• https://commons.lbl.gov/display/training/Home

(Berkeley Lab, 2011)

OCoP Success FactorsContextual Indicators [1 of 2] • “the setting and the pulse” (Harasim, 2011, p. 162)• Existence of active core group (Harasim, 2011)

(Berkeley Lab, 2013b)

OCoP Success FactorsContextual Indicators [2 of 2] • Participation (Harasim, 2011)

(Berkeley Lab, 2013a)

Year Number of Meetings

Timing

2013 2 March, July

2012 2 August, December

2011 2 February, December

2010 4 February, April, August, November

OCoP Success FactorsSocial and Intellectual Indicators

(Berkeley Lab, 2013a)

(Berkeley Lab, 2013c)

DE Theory

“Online Collaborative Learning (OCL) is proposed here as a new theory of learning that focuses on collaborative

learning, knowledge building, and Internet use as a means to reshape formal, nonformal and informal education for

the Knowledge Age” (Harasim, 2011, p. 81).

(Harasim, 2011)

Functioning• “Voluntary association online of professionals” (Harasim,

2011, p. 150)

• “Come together intentionally, actively and regularly for mutual gain and collective value” (Harasim, 2011, p. 150)

Knowledge Building Contribution• Sidebar• “tools, documents, and processes”

(Harasim, 2011, p. 143)

(Berkeley Lab, 2011)

Assessing OCoP Success (Harasim, 2011)

• Contextual Indicators• Social and Intellectual

Indicators• Procedural Indicators• Technological Indicators

Conclusion [1 of 4]• Organization

• OCoP History

Conclusion [2 of 4]• OCoP Success Factors

• Contextual Indicators• Social and Intellectual Indicators

• Distance Education (DE) Theory• Online Collaborative Learning

(OCL)

Conclusion [3 of 4]• Function

• Knowledge Building

Conclusion [4 of 4]• Assessing OCoP Success

• Contextual Indicators• Social and Intellectual

Indicators• Procedural Indicators• Technological Indicators

REFERENCES

Berkeley Lab. (n.d). About Berkeley Lab [Web Page]. Retrieved from

http://www.lbl.gov/Publications/75th/

Berkeley Lab. (2011). Training and development community of practice home [Web Page].

Retrieved from https://commons.lbl.gov/display/training/Home

Berkeley Lab. (2012). Strategic training plan 2009-2012 [Word Document]. Retrieved from

https://commons.lbl.gov/download/attachments/78744251/OCFO+Training+Strategic+Plan+2009-

2012+with+Current+Status+as+of+20121101.doc?version=1&modificationDate=1352997838596

Berkeley Lab. (2013a). Agendas and notes[Web Page]. Retrieved from

https://commons.lbl.gov/display/training/Agendas+and+Notes

REFERENCES

Berkeley Lab. (2013b). Community members [Web Page]. Retrieved from

https://commons.lbl.gov/display/training/Community+Members

Berkeley Lab. (2013c). Train the trainer course development project [Web Page].

Retrieved from

https://commons.lbl.gov/display/training/Train+the+Trainer+Course+Development+Pr

oject

Harasim, L. (2011). Learning Theory and Online Technologies. Routledge, Taylor &

Francis Group.