A community of action (CoA), unlike a community of practice, exists in a situation that is structurally more open, where actors have the possibility of bringing about change.
Related to Community of circumstance Community of inquiry Community of interest Community of position Community of place Community of practice Community of purpose
External links Communities of action: a cognitive and social approach to the design of CSCW systems Socio-Semantic Web applications: towards a methodology based on the Theory of the Communities of Action Distributed Design Teams as Communities of Practice