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Download full textImpedovo, Maria Antonietta – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2021
In this position paper, we explore the potential of social networks for teacher professional development. Networking is a crucial skill in professional careers, supporting the individual's personal and professional learning. Collective teacher interactions online can facilitate collaborative professional development and support collective…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Innovation
Direct linkCarpenter, Jeffrey; Tani, Tania; Morrison, Scott; Keane, Julie – Professional Development in Education, 2022
In the last decade, social media have become important tools for educator professional development, learning and community. While education has traditionally proven to be an isolating profession, technologies such as Twitter offer opportunities for educators to collaborate beyond their school, district, region and nation. Education-related Twitter…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Teachers
Nuuyoma, Vistolina; Mhlope, Nkosenhle Jermaine; Chihururu, Leonard – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
WhatsApp is the most popular networking site used by most university students for general purposes, and as a communication, collaborative and transactional tool in the teaching and learning process. However, experiences of its use among university students as an educational communication tool in low and resource-constrained settings have not been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Higher Education
Arendale, David R., Ed. – Online Submission, 2020
(Purpose) The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to identify best education practices for offering traditional student-led study group programs online. Lessons can be learned from the past to enable educators now and in the future to offer programs can promote higher student outcomes and increased persistence towards graduation. (Method)…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Peer Teaching, Group Instruction, Communities of Practice
Moodley, Maglin – South African Journal of Education, 2019
The introduction and use of online social media networks in education has provided a variety of unique methodologies in support of teaching, learning, and knowledge gathering. The presence of these networks has created opportunities to hear the voice of the teacher. This study explores how teachers and officials from a rural district in South…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Social Media, Rural Schools
Zhang, Si; Liu, Qingtang; Cai, Zhiqiang – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The contextual influences on technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) enactment and the method of TPACK assessment remain to be important research topics. Discourse data of 81 teachers in an online professional learning community were collected and analyzed based on the framework of TPACK. Frequency distribution and time series…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Collaboration
Karaoglan Yilmaz, Fatma Gizem – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Current research aimed to investigate the structural relationships among knowledge sharing behavior, adoption of Facebook and virtual loneliness behavior. The dataset of this study were gathered from Knowledge Sharing Behaviors (KSB) Scale, Facebook Adoption (FA) Scale and Virtual Environment Loneliness (VEL) Scale. Structural equation modelling…
Descriptors: Social Media, Communities of Practice, Sharing Behavior, Information Dissemination
Pilar, Ladislav; Moulis, Pavel; Pitrová, Jana; Bouda, Petr; Gresham, George; Balcarová, Tereza; Rojík, Stanislav – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2019
The aim of this paper is to examine the communication content of Instagram social network users, on the basis of the hashtags they use relating to gamification and to define communities within the network in the context of education. The results are based on the analysis of Instagram's worldwide social network. Primary data were collected using…
Descriptors: Social Media, Photography, Computer Mediated Communication, Telecommunications
Elaine Fournier; Mina Sedaghatjou; Immaculate Namukasa – OTESSA Journal, 2021
In this paper, we report on the ways in which technology and scholarship of pedagogy emerge as interconnected within a technology-facilitated community of practice (CoP), for educators within various Faculties of Education in North American universities. The goal of the Community of Practice is to connect with and learn from one another,…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
Cèlia Pratginestós; Dolors Masats – Classroom Discourse, 2024
The study of participation from a socio-interactional perspective relates to the exploration of the interactional practices displayed by interactants and the close examination of the multimodal resources they employ. Here we observe the language choices made by 2 teachers and 10 students who participate in a "WhatsApp" chat over the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students
Pinchbeck, Jessica; Heaney, Caroline – Athens Journal of Education, 2022
The importance of making online and distance education successful has been dramatically prioritized due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Student retention is a key performance indicator in online higher education. Evidence suggests that within online distance education the key to retaining students is to encourage an engaging and supportive online…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Discussion Groups, Communities of Practice
Allison JoAnn Lester – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This four-article dissertation is about fostering learning relationships online during the COVID-19 pandemic with undergraduate teaching fellows and adolescent learners enrolled in a summer enrichment program (SummerSpark). I, along with six undergraduate students (teaching fellows), created a "relational learning community" (RLC) to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Fellowships, Adolescents, Electronic Learning
Pedersen, Louisa Haugaard – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
This article is based on a school experiment of three local makerspaces that connected and turned into a global makerspace online. The three municipal schools were from Australia, United Kingdom and Denmark and participated in "the Global Makerspace project," which was a part of the European Union project "Makerspaces in the early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Shared Resources and Services, Communities of Practice
Artman, Bryan; Danner, Natalie; Crow, Sherry R. – International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, 2020
This article explores the current research on the state of teacher professional development practices. The literature shows that conventional professional development practices are typically deficient in addressing teacher and, indirectly, student needs. Conventional professional development practices were shown to be deficient due to their…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Independent Study, Nontraditional Education, Teacher Participation
Jessica R. McCarty – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Asynchronous online learning provides students and instructors flexibility and convenience. However, a persistent concern regarding online learning is that it is inherently impersonal. The Community of Inquiry (CoI) theoretical framework, first introduced by Garrison et al. in 2000, incorporates social-constructivism principles to promote a sense…
Descriptors: Humanization, Electronic Learning, Teacher Student Relationship, Communities of Practice
