Virtual communities of practice in university higher education
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https://doi.org/10.53673/th.v1i12.88Keywords:
Comunidad de práctica, Comunidad de práctica virtual, educación superior universitaria, docentes, universitariosAbstract
The objective of this article was to learn about the role of virtual communities of practice in university higher education. For this, a documentary-type investigation was considered, with a literature review, it was done by consulting databases such as Proquest, Scopus and Science Direct. With keywords such as: virtual community of practice; and university higher education. The inclusion criteria were: that they be articles from indexed journals, that the publication was not older than 5 years, and that the theme was related to the community of practice variable. With this, 15 articles were collected that had what was specified. It was concluded with the fulfillment of this, which was to reflect on the role of virtual communities of practice in university contexts. Virtual communities of practice have become a useful tool for exchanging knowledge and experiences in recent years. In addition, they provide advantages that are added to those of the traditional ones. The collective construction of knowledge that is achieved in a CP has a positive impact on the professional practices of teachers, as well as having positive effects on the academic development of students.
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