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van As, Francois – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
With the introduction of a new school curriculum in South Africa in 1998, Technology as a school subject was introduced for the first time. Implementation by the National Department of Education took place over a very short time frame allowing very little time for adequate training of technology teachers by the provincial departments of education.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Technology Education, Teacher Education, Technology Integration
Johnston-Josey, Lucy Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Literacy is a key component to success in school and in life. Literacy has been a focus of education since 1965 when President Jimmy Carter announced a "war on poverty." Since then, history has shown that educators should place an emphasis on literacy within schools. Because literacy is so important, I set out to explore how…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Administrator Role, Literacy Education, School Districts
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Roulston, Kathryn; Pope, Elizabeth; Paulus, Trena; deMarrais, Kathleen – American Journal of Distance Education, 2018
This paper reports findings from a 2-year study of online coursework in a graduate certificate program in qualitative research methods in the USA. Thirty-four interviews with students enrolled in coursework offered over a 2-year period were analyzed to explore their perceptions of engagement with the course content and one another. Findings are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Course Content
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Ozturk, Tugba H.; Hodgson, Vivien – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
In this paper, we argue that in order to get a fuller understanding of the complexity of conflict in democratic pedagogies in online and blended learning settings, it is important to know not only how to manage or resolve it, but also how it is triggered and can be avoided. The emancipatory nature of democratic pedagogies fosters differences, and…
Descriptors: Conflict, Computer Simulation, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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Chiang, Feng-Kuang; Chen, Chen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Using the method of design-based research, this study examines the three-year application of the modified flipped classroom model in a postgraduate course on learning sciences. In the modified flipped classroom, students form learning communities in groups. Before class, they read literature, raise questions, and discuss material both online and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Graduate Students, Communities of Practice
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Stephenson, Sandria S. – Accounting Education, 2017
This paper reports the findings of an exploratory qualitative study using the implementation of Wenger's [(1998). "Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity." Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press; Wenger, E. (2000). Communities of practice and social learning systems. "Organization," 7(2), 225-246] Theory of…
Descriptors: Accounting, Communities of Practice, Guidelines, Qualitative Research
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Sheffield, Rachel; Blackley, Susan; Moro, Paul – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Contemporary teachers have an obligation to support and scaffold students' learning in digital technologies and to do this in authentic contexts. In order for teachers to be successful in this, their own competency in digital technologies needs to be high, and their own 21st century learning skills of communication, collaboration, creativity and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Stover, Sheri; Ziswiler, Korrin – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2017
Colleges and universities are beginning to invest in active learning (AL) classrooms in an effort to replace the traditional lecture style pedagogy that is frequently used by many professors in higher education (Eagan et al., 2014). This is a quantitative research study conducted at a medium-sized Midwestern university. Students were given the…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research
Murdaugh, Erica Charlanda Russell – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this qualitative Action Research Study was to describe eight elementary English Language Arts (ELA) teachers' perceptions of a Professional Learning Community (PLC). The teacher-participants' opinions about the PLC were used to improve the existing PLC to promote a more reflective and collaborative environment where ELA teachers…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Language Arts, Communities of Practice
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Kosnik, Clare; Menna, Lydia; Dharamshi, Pooja; Beck, Clive – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This paper presents findings from the large-scale study "Literacy Teacher Educators: Their Backgrounds, Visions, and Practices" that includes 28 literacy/English teacher educators (LTEs) from four countries. The participants were interviewed three times and shared their course outlines. Six pre-service LTEs who use a constructivist…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Literacy Education, Constructivism (Learning), Teaching Methods
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Krutka, Daniel G.; Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Trust, Torrey – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2016
In recent years, many educators have turned to participatory online affinity spaces for professional growth with peers who are more accessible because of reduced temporal and spatial constraints. Specifically, professional learning networks (PLNs) are "uniquely personalized, complex systems of interactions consisting of people, resources, and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Interaction, Teacher Student Relationship, Social Media
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vanOostveen, Roland; Childs, Elizabeth; Clarkson, Jessica; Flynn, Kathleen – College Quarterly, 2016
Engaging in an online course has traditionally been perceived to be a lonely experience, with students busy viewing video lectures, working on problem sets and interacting intermittently with others using asynchronous technologies. More recently, over the past 6-7 years, online courses have become recognized as viable delivery vehicles for online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
Scurr, Adam Charles George – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative research investigated 15 teachers' learning in a Facebook online community of practice. The purpose of this study was to determine if learning in a teacher Facebook online community of practice was consistent with Wenger's community of practice framework, utilizing a constant comparison analysis. It was not known whether a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Social Media
Fuller, Lynn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation examined formats of job-embedded professional development that were experienced by beginning teachers at a high-poverty, high-mobility elementary school in the third year of a School Improvement Grant. A qualitative case study was conducted to examine formats of job-embedded professional development that were most useful to help…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Educational Improvement, Qualitative Research
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Taher, Tanzina; Mensah, Felicia Moore; Emdin, Christopher – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This ethnographic case study follows two urban immigrant students in their yearlong journey in an urban science classroom where the first two pedagogic tools of reality pedagogy (cogenerative dialogue and co-teaching) were implemented. This study examines the role reality pedagogy plays in the science classroom for these two students, while…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Areas, Immigrants, Ethnography
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