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Baas, Marjon; Schuwer, Robert; van den Berg, Ellen; Huizinga, Tjark; van der Rijst, Roeland; Admiraal, Wilfried – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Brokers are individuals who facilitate transfer of knowledge and resources, and coordinate efforts across boundaries of organizations. They are defined by their role rather than their organizational position. Brokers might be imperative for the formation and maintenance of inter-institutional relationship as they have the responsibility and the…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Open Educational Resources, Higher Education, Information Services
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Sandoval, Carlos, Jr. – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine an essential component of enacting an improvement network: facilitation. In it, the author surfaces "synthesizing" as a core, power-laden facilitation practice that brought together network members from disparate institutions to converge on a shared network aim and theory of improvement.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Improvement, Group Dynamics
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Choi, Hyunjin; Drago-Severson, Eleanor – European Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Teacher Leadership Teams (TLTs) are cross-functional teams, and thus knowledge integration is central to their teaming. Importantly, the existing literature maintains that cross-functional teams apply the traverse or transcend approach differently to integrate divergent knowledge, but few studies have directly focused on it within the context of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Teamwork, Teacher Collaboration, Urban Schools
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Muzam, John; Bendkowski, Jacek; Mah, Pascal Muam; Mudoh, Polycap – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: The study discusses the importance of workplace learning in the current era of work and how organisations are shifting their focus toward employee learning and development. It highlights the need for employees to continuously up-skill themselves to keep up with the demand for skills. The purpose of this study is to introduce a modern…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Communities of Practice, Informal Education, Human Capital
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Connolly, Cornelia; Carr, Enda; Knox, Seamus – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
The numerical ability of Irish students in international and national assessments is weaker than for literacy, particularly among higher-performing students. The aim of this study was to design a national teacher professional development programme to encourage teachers at post-primary level to develop numeracy competency across the post-primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Numeracy, Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Voigt, Matthew; Wynn, Lynda; Bjorkman, Katie; Lo, Stanley M. – PRIMUS, 2023
In this paper, we briefly introduce three theoretical frameworks for mathematical identity and why they matter to practitioners teaching undergraduate mathematics courses. These frameworks are narrative identities, communities of practice, and figured worlds. After briefly describing each theory, we provide examples of how each framework can be…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Concept, Mathematics Education, College Mathematics
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Oakley, Grace; King, Ronnel B.; Scarparolo, Gemma E. – Teacher Development, 2023
This article reports on a study of a teacher professional development (TPD) course that combined digital courseware with a face-to-face professional learning community. The aim of the course, implemented in a developing country, was to improve teacher knowledge and practice in early childhood literacy and numeracy. Using interview and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Courseware, Blended Learning
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Yoshida, Masami; Xiong, Chun; Liu, Yunyun; Liu, Hongyan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This study aims to identify the formulation differences of groups in two online activities in a university course with different strategies by using social network analysis. Specifically, the connections within the members and identification of brokers were analyzed. Whilst the group enhancing a "community of practice" in WeChat by…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Network Analysis, Social Media
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Dai, Kun; Elliot, Dely Lazarte – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Research has been widely conducted to understand international student mobility, particularly from Global South to North. However, there is little attention paid to international doctoral students' research and learning experiences in non-traditional destinations, particularly in the Chinese context. Drawing upon the concept of Communities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Doctoral Students, Communities of Practice
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Cyndi Caniglia; Kathryn Picanco; Kristen Arnold; Sharon Naccarato – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2023
Professional Growth Plans (PGPs), a model of professional development for educators, were completed in the context of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) as part of a grant from a state Professional Educator Standards Board. Participants were in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and represented different educator roles in two urban…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Educational Benefits
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Daquanna Harrison; Margaret Patterson – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2023
Using data collected through a survey on professional development in adult education (AE), Elevation Educational Consulting Group (EECG) and Research Allies for Lifelong Learning provide the field of AE with an analysis focused on two aspects of the survey. The data were collected from separate surveys, for administrators and instructors, with a…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Adult Education
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Claire Major – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2023
Online courses are gaining importance in higher educationinstitutions, leading scholars to explore how individuals learn in this context and how developing an online community can support their learning. This research examines a graduate-level online course focused on college and university teaching, structured around a social learning perspective…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Graduate Study, Teacher Education
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Matthew G. Schwartz – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Formal faculty mentorship programs are a practical and effective pathway to enable faculty success in teaching, scholarship, and service and to enhance faculty satisfaction. Although informal mentoring relationships benefit some faculty, formal faculty mentorship programs ensure equitable access to mentorship for female faculty and faculty from…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Mentors, Networks, Models
Valerio, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Designing professional development (PD) that helps teachers enact more ambitious math instruction that is responsive to emergent student thinking is challenging work. Two approaches to this sort of PD, practice-based professional development and lesson study, have different mechanisms for fostering change and choose different focus points for…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
Latta, April – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Utilizing a qualitative single case study approach, this study was designed to examine how teachers in an elementary school that engages in professional learning communities describe the role of reflection in their own professional learning and practice. Relying on two semi-structured interviews, this study examines teachers' perceptions…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Autonomy, Adult Learning
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