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Download full textMansperger, Josie A.; Morgan, Amy L.; Kiss, Jessica E.; Ludy, Mary-Jon – Learning Communities Research and Practice, 2020
This is a personal account of the author's journey through involvement with learning communities (LCs). She began college with little exposure to mentoring and research. Six years later, she graduated with a master's degree, a trove of experience from LCs, and the confidence to take on a research role in her profession. The author's personal roles…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Students, Mental Health, Mentors
Direct linkGoodnough, Karen; Arnold, Christine; Azam, Saiqa; Maich, Kimberly; Moghaddam, Alireza; Penney, Sharon; Young, Gabrielle – Studying Teacher Education, 2020
Communities of practice, based on the work of Etienne Wenger, is being adopted as a framework in higher education to facilitate and foster professional learning. This article describes the emergence and cultivation of a university community of practice. Based on a desire to enhance our work as teacher educators and the learning experiences of our…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Reflective Teaching, Group Dynamics
Biddix, J. Patrick; Collom, Gresham D.; Roberts, Darby M. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2020
This article traces the professionalization of student affairs assessment through the development of the assessment position and the progression of operations, functions and responsibilities. Evidence includes a review of various publications followed by an empirical examination of data from a professional Listserv. Findings identify how…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Educational Assessment, Scholarship
Stockdale, Fiona – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay explores the place of debating, talk and group work in the Secondary English classroom. It discusses the ways in which pupils in one student teacher's year 7 class thrive in the dialogic classroom against the backdrop of curricular and attitudinal change. It considers the importance of talk and debate amongst the 'communities of…
Descriptors: Debate, English Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Kim, Yeon – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
This paper reports changes of the quality of instruction and students' attitudes towards mathematics at one high school during 3 years while teachers participated in a teacher community. The setting for this research was a small-sized high school in South Korea with 154 students and three mathematics teachers. I analyzed the teachers' mathematics…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Trowler, Vicki; Schreiber, Birgit – Journal of College and Character, 2020
Student engagement offers many useful ways of thinking about student and institutional success. This article argues that more research and theorizing are required to make the construct relevant to living and learning communities, students, and institutions beyond the United States. Four pointers are discussed to expand and deepen the construct and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Communities of Practice, Living Learning Centers, Race
Carpenter, Daniel; Munshower, Paul – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how rural teachers provided a PLC by leveraging virtual technologies to connect educators of like subject disciplines from several schools, foreign and domestic. Design/methodology/approach: A phenomenological case study-based approach was leveraged to investigate established vPLCs at schools…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Computer Mediated Communication
Goshtasbpour, Fereshte; Swinnerton, Bronwen; Morris, Neil Peter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Previous research on xMOOC pedagogy has established that learner interactions in discussion forums play a fundamental role in learning. However, little is known about the extent to which MOOC instructors engage with learner conversations and the impact this has on learner engagement. Adopting a novel design, this study went beyond self-reported…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learner Engagement, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship
Pillai, Rajasshrie; Sivathanu, Brijesh – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the online learning experience (LE) of massive open online courses (MOOCs) among the students in India using the lens of community of inquiry (CoI) model and two additional contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach: The study conducted a survey using a structured questionnaire among the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Experience, Online Courses, College Students
Natkin, Lisa W.; Hill, Laura M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter describes how faculty at the University of Vermont are trained to teach their university-wide sustainability general education requirement and how they execute teaching in the classroom.
Descriptors: Sustainability, Behavioral Objectives, College Curriculum, Communities of Practice
Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Felipe; Flores, Francisco; Guerra, Martha; Cardona-T, Jose-Gerardo; Valdez-Jimenez, Liliana; Espino, Piero; Olaguez, Eugenia; Muñoz, Humberto; Chavoya, Jorge; Rendon, Hector; Zúñiga, Luz-María; Franco, Yolanda; Rojas-Garcia, Sandra-Yarely; Alvarez, Maria-Ines; Torres-Mata, Joaquin; Betancourt-Nuñez, Erik-Moises; Rodriguez-Ramirez, Sergio-Esteban; Alvarez-Gomez, Miguel; Cabral-Araiza, Jesus; Anguiano, Carlos – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
To satisfy the imperative need for developing life skills in basic education students throughout the country, it is important to think about continue educational inclusion, which is to be understood as the idea of Education for All. Education for all should satisfy the basic needs of learning while developing the individual and social welfare of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Inclusion, Daily Living Skills, Critical Thinking
Eaker, Robert, Ed.; Marzano, Robert J., Ed. – Solution Tree, 2020
Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability Schools™ (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Models
Alma Harris – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2020
Purpose: This article explores how school leaders are responding during COVID-19 and what forms of leadership practice are emerging. Design/methodology/approach: This article draws upon the contemporary leadership literature and scholarly work. Findings: This article proposes that the current crisis has shifted school leadership dramatically…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Crisis Management, Leadership
Smith, Tracy; Spooner, Melba – To Improve the Academy, 2021
This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial artifacts and outcomes of a faculty support (a.k.a. mentoring) model developed for a specific academic context: a College of Education at a Southeastern comprehensive public university. The purposes of this article are to (1) describe the research and theoretical models that…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Participatory Research, Community Development, Models
Bozkurt, Mahmut – International Technology and Education Journal, 2021
As a teacher educator who provides online education during the pandemic process, I wanted to examine what is needed and what is shared in online learning communities. The aim of this research is to reveal the most shared concepts and sentiments in online learning networks using the data obtained from Twitter. In this context, the #edtech hashtag,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Communities of Practice
