Communities of Practice in and Across Organizations: a Guidebook.

• This free pdf book is intended to help guide individuals, teams and organisations through the process of launching and sustaining a community of practice initiative 

Creating Communities of Practice

• A guide developed by  Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC), aimed at leaders in education but broadly applicable.

Creating Communities of Practice Long Version

• Video guide on creating communities of practice

Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge - Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice

• An excerpt from the book Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, published by Harvard Business Review

Introduction to communities of practice

• An overview of communities of practice by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner

Brief introduction to communities of practice

• Another introduction to communities of practice by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner. Includes examples of the different forms communities of practice can take.

What is a Community of Practice

• An introduction to communities of practice by UCD

Community of Practice Design Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education

• A practical guide to developing communities of practice, aimed at higher education but the advice is broadly applicable.

UTAS Community of Practice Initiative: Readings and Resources

• A compilation of articles, case studies and conference papers on communities of practice

Contents of this guide are available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 unless stated otherwise.

This guide has been adapted from Creating Communities of Practice by Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) which is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.