Network Community: Building Practices
ETAP-663-8917
University at Albany
- Semester
- Spring 2026
- Instructor
- Kristen C Wilcox
- Start Date
- 01-21-2026
- Total Credits
- 3
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- 518-442-5140
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This course will introduce students to how improvement science can be used to foster the creation of networked improvement communities (NICs). We will learn how such communities improve the pace, scope, and capacity for learning. In particular, we will focus on cultural elements that such NICs share across sectors (be that medicine, industry, social systems or education) such as their capacity to encourage vulnerability, sharing, transparency, and create a shared purpose and vision among its team. With this in mind, we will also focus some of our attention and readings on how "the hive mind" works - that is how communities of thinkers can be brought together for the purpose of innovation and diffusion of ideas, drawing on some of the most recent scholarship in the field (on sociology, psychology, and educational researchers among others) to learn how humans can better work, think, and collaborate together to solve today's most wicked problems.
Course Area: Education Theory and Practice
Level: Graduate
Dates: 01-21-2026 - 05-05-2026
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