ABSTRACT:
The MIRROR project explores the mirroring of the learning interactions of individuals within communities of practice (CoP) through the use of technologies. The specific context explored within the project is that of museum natural scientists and, to provide sufficient focus for the size and duration of the project, specifically those exhibition teams and communities of practice engaged with the production of exhibitions.
The aim of the MIRROR project is to provide communities or groups involved in exhibition building with a MIRROR CoP and software platform to make use of knowledge arising from CoPs. In order to develop appropriate software investigations into current practice have been undertaken at a number of European natural history museums (EU NHMs), specifically with regard to working patterns and their relationship to mature theoretical understandings of CoPs.
