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Download full textPeck, Frederick A.; O'Connor, Kevin; Cafarella, Julie; McWilliams, Jacob – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
Mathematics has long been understood to be a "gatekeeper," which functions to restrict access to educational opportunities due to (a) its central role in formal educational sequences, and (b) the high failure rates often observed in mathematics courses. Failing is an encounter with a type of border: a border that divides a continuous…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Engineering Education, Academic Failure
Konstantinidis, Angelos; Goria, Cecilia – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The purpose of this contribution is to share reflections and practices in cultivating a community of learners in the context of a professional development programme at Master's level for language teachers. The programme implements a highly participatory pedagogical model of online learning which combines the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Masters Programs, Language Teachers
Puranen, Pasi; Vurdien, Ruby – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In language learning today, students from different geographical locations are able to interact online in a more authentic environment, share their views with their partners, create profiles as well as build online communities enjoying common interests. With this in mind, this paper examines and reports on a study about how students from two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Profiles, Communities of Practice, Videoconferencing
Colmenero, Manuel Jacinto Roblizo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
The paper presents a successful educational practice that, inspired by the "dialogic learning" methodological principles, is implemented through a "learning community." Theoretical bases are introduced, along with some defining traits of didactic practice. The focus is on the 'La Paz' "learning community" case, as a…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Communities of Practice, Poverty, Neighborhoods
Mompoint Gaillard, Pascale; Rajic, Višnja – Online Submission, 2014
Communities of practice as organisations of learning have developed different forms as: task-based, practice-based or knowledge based communities (Barab et al., 2004). The paper presents a case study of a successful community of practice developed under the umbrella of Council of Europe Pestalozzi programme for teacher development. The programme…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Virtual Classrooms, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Barilli, Elomar Castilho; de Freitas Barretto, Stenio; Lima, Carla Moura; Menezes, Marco Antonio – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
This paper is intended to share the results of the assessment of the use of the Online Work Community (OWC), developed in the Moodle technology that was used as an instrument to facilitate the educational and operational processes, intended to share problems and proposals for solution among the 470 members of the development teams, made up of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Communities of Practice, Familiarity, Critical Theory
Direct linkCochrane, Thomas – Research in Learning Technology, 2012
Having implemented and evaluated over 35 mlearning projects in a variety of contexts in higher education over the past 6 years the researcher is ready to share the untold secret: not all mlearning projects succeed! This article critiques three of the researcher's mlearning projects that can be classed as "failures" and compares them to successful…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Action Research, Participatory Research, Program Design
