online communities of practice

Communities of practice are groups of people who share common ideas and do things on a common issue by interaction. Not all groups of people are called communities of practice because they have three major features forming them. The first one is the domain. A community of is not just a group of friends, it has a characteristics defined by a experienced domain of interest, and therefore a shared competence makes the members of the community of practice different from other people. The second feature is the community. If a group of people does not interact with each other, does not share their ideas or help each other that mean this group of people is not a community of practice. The last feature is the practice. The members of a community of practice develop a shared practice, in short they are practitioners. The combination of these three features forms the communities of practice. This concept is used in organizations, government, education, civic life, etc.