Federal Learning Community: Introduction

Welcome to the Federal Learning Community! A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people bound by a shared interest, purpose or practice.

The Communities of Practice tool has been migrated to OPM's QuickPlace. If you have any questions, please contact hrlobpmo@opm.gov

About USALearning's Communities of Practice:

These Community webspaces are designed to allow Community Members, and in some cases non-members, to share ideas and knowledge in several ways including:

• Community Announcements
• Content publishing
• Links to other Community-related sites or content
• Threaded discussions
• Real-time collaborative sessions

Communities of Practice:

• Increase information flow across boundaries.
• Prevent "reinventing the wheel".
• Fill in the gap between formal training, policies and procedures and how members really work or interact.
• Are more flexible than "formal" networks.
• Are one of a very few ways to share "tacit" knowledge and know-how.
• Foster continuous learning cultures that, in turn, foster creativity and innovation.