Week 6: 3

Organization units involve following the rules sets by the unit, learning is gathered by the “unit they report to,” and so are rather strict. Whereas for communities of practice individuals join in discussions about what they have “done” or learned “together” allowing for flexibility.

For Organizational units individuals are limited to discuss the “project” that they are working on, in this sense the level of communication is more formal than for communities of practice.With organizational units there are limits to what is considered relevant to talk about, these units are therefore structured. In contrast, communities of practice are everywhere they can be a particular film group trying to create a new genre, essentially they are “self organizing systems” and for this reason they are not bound by structures but instead develop their “own understanding.”