THE LEARNING ORGANISATION BLOG Communities of Practice Series #communitiesofpractice #CoP #selfregulatedlearning #SRL #scaffolding #zoneofproximaldevelopment #zpd #vygotsky #connectivism “Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (Wenger, 2011). In this week’s CoP series, we discuss self-regulated learning with accounting lecturer Brooke Sinclair. Brooke will show you how you can use some specific techniques to further engage learners in self-regulated learning practices. Introduction Some of the material I teach is quite dry, there are many new concepts and often the learners have little experience in the working environments in which these concepts make the most sense. On the first day of class I would arrive at the classroom and think, I wonder how engaged this cohort of learners will be, will they participate an...