Three types of Learning and Organisational Resources (LORs) have been elaborated in the PALETTE framework for:

1. Managing, supporting and evaluating (individual and collective, and informal and formal) learning: these LORs can be used by CoP coordinators or members, as instance, in order to identify learning needs, identify key competences of members that could be used for addressing specific domain issues, evaluate members’ learning through CoP activities, etc.
2. Organising, managing, developing, and evaluating CoPs: this LOR supports coordinators in identifying typical CoP activities and provides advice for their organisation.
3. Choosing and (individually and collectively) appropriating tools, supporting CoPs in conceiving scenarios of tools uses: these LORs advise CoPs moderators or members on the use of specific tools for specific activities and ways to efficiently appropriate them.

 The LORs are related to generic activity scenarios that are the main activities of most of CoPs: ‘Reification’, ‘Debate and Decide’, and CoP ‘Identity Development’. The table below summarizes the objectives of each type of LOR regarding the activity scenarios:

 

	1. Managing learning	2. Organising CoP activities	3. Choosing tools
'Reification'	Identifying learning needs, suggesting ways for individual reification of practices-knowledge, evaluating the learning activities and events	Suggesting ways for collective reification of practices-knowledge; evaluating the activities	Suggesting scenarios of uses for reification of practices-knowledge
'Debate & Decide'	Confronting arguments, changing one’s view, enabling cognitive conflicts and their positive resolution, etc.	Negotiating, discussing, and making decisions about the activities of the CoPs	Negotiating, discussing, and making decisions about the choices and uses of tools
'Identity development'	Social learning, situating the members and their competences, developing collective activities that enable learning	(Auto)diagnosing CoP needs; elaborating and organising specific activities; analysing conditions for emergence and sustainability	Matching different types of activities with types of (PALETTE or non-PALETTE) tools and scenarios

 

 

In the files provided, 16 LORs are proposed. Here are their names and short names sorted by type of resource:

Managing, supporting and evaluating (individual and collective, and informal and formal) learning

1. Related to ‘Reification’: o Understanding the perceived needs of CoP members (NeedCoP)

• Analysing individual learning processes (AnalysingLearningProc)
• Sharing good practices and lessons learned (GoodPractices)
• What and how am I learning? (WhatHow)
• Individual issue analysis (IndividualIssue)

1. Related to ‘Debate & Decide’:

• Connecting individual objectives with CoP activities (ObjectivesActivities)
• The learning SWOT (LearningSwot)

1. Related to ‘Identity development’:

• Mapping your community of practice (MapCoP)
• Yellow Pages and map of competences (YellowPages)
• How to define an ontology? (DefineOntology)
• Elaborating CoP charter and policy (CharterPolicy)

1. Related to ‘Reification’:

• Suggesting scenarios of uses for reification of practices-knowledge (ScenariosUses)

1. Related to ‘Debate & Decide’:

• Negotiating, discussing and making decisions about the choices of tools (ChoicesTools)
• Negotiating, discussing and making decisions about the uses of tools (UsesTools)

1. Related to ‘Identity development’:

• Matching different types of activities with types of tools and scenarios (ActivitiesToolsScenarios)

An extended description of the LORs as well as their elaboration and validation processes is provided in the report D.PAR.06

In addition, the LORs are available in a Web version in SweetWiki.

 

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