1

Student’s Name

Professor’s Name

Course

Institution

Date

Community of Practice

Nature of Organization

Our organization is a higher learning institution with many student enrolments. The

institution has students from all over the world, thus necessitating implementing an eLearning

program that will simplify the learning process for all the students and teachers. Education

delivery is undergoing significant changes that force the administrators to embrace new teaching

environments and teaching to adapt to the new dynamics.

General Description of what is to be learned

The implementation of the eLearning program requires all employees to learn some new

skills and knowledge that will be pivotal in the successful rollout of the program. The employees

will be required to learn or perfect their written communication skills. IT will entail skills for

applying digital audio files, graphics and videos as a medium for communicating with the

students. The conversations with students on the eLearning platform will primarily involve

voice-messaging, texting or email, hence developing and perfecting their communication skills.

Furthermore, the employees will be required to learn technological literacy skills (Smith et al.,
 2

pg.62). The employees will be required to develop knowledge and skills related to web-based

educational platforms or systems. The employees will need to learn how to evaluate internet

resources and implement and develop suitable lesson plans for the eLearning programs. The

employees will also need to monitor and model proper etiquette and acceptable eLearning

policies (Yuenyong).

Additionally, the employees will learn how to troubleshoot or solve some trivial technical

problems and understand the accessibility requirements for the technology used in the eLearning

program. The employees will also be required to learn or understand various copyright violations

and privileges. Time management is crucial in any eLearning program; hence employees need to

learn or advance their time management skills. The employees must learn how to update various

course materials and examine information whenever necessary so that students have relevant and

timely information at all times. The employees must learn the evaluation and assessment skills

relating to the eLearning program. New methods and skills of identifying challenges and

assessing students will be pivotal in ensuring the success of the eLearning program once

launched. Lastly, the employees will be required to learn how to assist students in becoming

completely engaged based on their learning abilities.

COP Plan Steps and Strategies

The success of the eLearning program will depend on the community of practice steps I

will take as the team leader. I will undertake various steps to ensure the success of the eLearning

project. Firstly, I will determine the goals and mission of the eLearning project (Buckley,

Heather, et al., pg.763). The mission will be pivotal for success because it explains how the

vision of the eLearning program will be attained. Secondly, I will start building my core team.

The core team members will be composed of various individuals with diverse skills and
 3

knowledge to ensure effective sharing of ideas, best practices and relevant content relating to the

project.

Furthermore, I will tarts promoting knowledge management through easier sharing and

access to information by team members. I will develop a knowledge management system that

will store the information and ensure timely and relevant access (Smith et al., pg.62). I will also

engage in regular communication with the team members to ensure effective collaboration and

coordination by undertaking different assigned roles and responsibilities (Wang, Dan, and

Baizhou). Additionally, I will host my first community of practice event that will stipulate the

importance of the eLearning project and share different knowledge and experience learned in the

organization.

.
 4

Work Cited

Buckley, Heather, et al. "When I say… community of practice." Medical education 53.8 (2019):

763-765.

Smith, Sue, Steve Kempster, and Etienne Wenger-Trayner. "Developing a program community

of practice for leadership development." Journal of Management Education 43.1 (2019):

62-88.

Wang, Dan, and Baizhou Li. "Behavioral selection strategies of members of enterprise

community of Practice—An evolutionary game theory approach to the knowledge

creation process." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 153322-153333.

Yuenyong, Chokchai. "Lesson learned of building up a community of practice for STEM

education in Thailand." AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2081. No. 1. AIP Publishing

LLC, 2019.