Communities of Interest: Learning through the Interaction of Multiple Knowledge Systems

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Enhancing feedback in higher education: Students’ attitudes towards online and in-class formative assessment feedback models (2017, background): “Many see Web 2.0 technologies in general as having the potential to transform e-learning and traditional teaching methods (Duffy, 2011), while Facebook, in particular, can facilitate the development of communities of practice (Wenger, 1998) and communities of interest (Fischer, 2001).”
Why we blog (2004, background): “Various electronic media support communities [8], including chat [5, 11], group Web sites [2], listservs [9], and multi-user dimensions (MUDs) and MUD object-oriented technologies (MOOs) [10].”
Designing for Learning in an Open World (2012, background): “Aggregations of communities of practice are de fi ned by Fischer ( 2001 ) as communities of interest (CoI), which bring together individuals from different communities of practice to solve a problem of shared concern, and they are often more temporary than CoP.”
Evolution of Wenger's concept of community of practice (2009, background): “, physicians, researchers, or health care administrators), whereas a community of interest is a 'heterogeneous community' or 'community-of-communities' that mirrors a multidisciplinary team[54].”