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Identify a domain
Decide on level of abstraction
=- members with varying experience across univ
- need to find commonality
- sense of common belongings

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Philip (SD), Remi (SD). Joe (ABCT)

- Metaphor as an infant (innocent)
- Need parents and baby-sitters but not too many.
- We need to look after the development of the infants (nurture). Especially developing their sense of motor, intelligence, sensor, emotion, social interaction, and their need of attention.
- Concern the development of the infant – sense of motor, intelligence, sensor, emotion, social interaction and attention.
- Bruno Munari – Influenced by Maria Montessori that Classroom/courses are not adapted to the infant’s understanding "Don’t say what to do but tell them how to do. "
- Beat some sense into it, feeding intellectual food, clean, careful, protect, communicate (speak), the building of characters/ identity, social interaction with other infants.
- Development of language allows structured and non-structured learning. Allows for mistakes, be patient. To fix some boundaries but allowing for trial and error (Experiential learning, Learning by playing)

- “being nasty to children is not that bad”

- “For me and for you for the universe ...”

- Put ourselves in their pants – not to see them from our levels (height)

- Parents/ Guidance = senior management
- Quote from Bruno Munari – Influenced by Maria Montessori Classroom/courses are not adapted to the infant’s understanding. “Don’t say what to do but tell them how to do.”

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Table 4A: CoP Phase 4 - Maturity/Sustaining

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Table 4A: CoP Phase 4 - Maturity/Sustaining

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On Sustainability
Maturity = Growth in membership size only?
Decentralization of network
Mastery and development of expertise
Drying up in terms of common interest among CoP members

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1. CoP has a life span with an end to it- so not sure about this phase?
2. Rejuvenate- new membership?  members come and go as they see fit/ find useful to join again
3. Improving/ learn from the past? making large or small changes?
4. A stage to move on/ refocus/ evaluate?
5. Spin-off
6. Change of environment--> change of practices/ evolving, not time-bound
7. CoP projects end when funding ends?
8. how to build PolyU as a university to promote social responsibility <expanding from Service Learning CoP

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Table 4B: CoP Phase 4 - Maturity/Sustaining

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Table 4B: CoP Phase 4 - Maturity/Sustaining

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1) Maturity - involvement of members in planning/ idea sharing
2) developing train-the-trainer program to nurture members to become new facilitators
3) Building up local and global network - to generate new ideas
4) Leverage on other resources for maturity/ sustainability
5) Maturity - established well structured induction/ materials for new members
6) Supporting members to join overseas activities to bring back new ideas to CoP/ sharing of practice
7) Benefits to members - professional development
8) Peer support of practice
9) Maturity - reflection sessions to reinforce members about the CoP objectives/ review members' expectation/ measure effectiveness --> next phase
10) Group dynamics - important to keep members engaged in activities of CoP ("stage of sustainability"/ trust/ more contributions from different members at the stage of "maturity"
11) maturity-  benchmarking with other institutes/ practice
12) New activities to attract new members
13) Membership system - members with different informal roles

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- Feasibility study of the proposed problems
- Decide on the activities (professional development workshops, sharing platform face2face or online, collaborate on proposal writing, etc...)

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Issues:
1)Identify the focus / gap/need (change)
2) Resources (financial, human/space/time/adm. support)
3) Expected outcome
4) Perceived value /benefit
5) Facilitator / structure of CoP

Strategies
Platform (social media) to share and facilitate discussion, eg. eHow, stackoverflow

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Key Issues:
1)Define the scope and common ground
2) Identify  members
3) Seizing the institutional moments

Strategies:
1) Rainbow team: Social gathering team for karaoke or entertainment. More organic  and authentic. Then identify  key approaches that applicable to all disciplines
2) Research  driven, scholarship of teaching and learning
3) Individuals who are passionate
4) Ask members to contribute to ideas and sign a form, seek support from management

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-achieve meaningfulness of the activity, not instrumental
establish the gap of the support needed
appraisal reference- -acknowledgements for -establish broader participants
of definition
-how can existing participants bring in more new participants
-CoP network: should be able to bring the outside inside