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Macklin, Alexis Smith – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2008
This study explored the use of a problem-based learning (PBL) approach for teaching information and communication technology (ICT) skills to first-year students. Two questions were posed. The first addressed the ICT skill needs of 20 students enrolled in a first-year composition course. The second focused on the use of PBL to facilitate ICT skill…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Problem Based Learning, Prior Learning, Information Retrieval
Murillo, Enrique – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: This research set out to determine whether communities of practice can be entirely Internet-based by formally applying Wenger's theoretical framework to Internet collectives. Method: A model of a virtual community of practice was developed which included the constructs Wenger identified in co-located communities of practice: mutual…
Descriptors: Information Science, Interaction, Content Analysis, Construct Validity
Katz, Steven; Earl, Lorna; Jaafar, Sonia Ben; Elgie, Susan; Foster, Leanne; Halbert, Judy; Kaser, Linda – McGill Journal of Education, 2008
In an effort to intentionally create the level of deep learning necessary for practitioners to make meaningful changes in their classrooms, professional networks are increasingly being promoted as mechanisms for knowledge creation that can make a difference for students. This paper explores the way networks function by testing a theory of action…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Educational Cooperation
Dayton, Charles; Stern, David – Career Academy Support Network, 2010
In order to assess how completely a Small Learning Community (SLC) and/or Career Academy is implemented in any given site, and to connect the degree of implementation with the amount of improvement in student performance, two kinds of information are needed. The first is information on the quality of implementation, which can be collected by…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Career Academies, Program Effectiveness, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Garrison, D. R.; Cleveland-Innes, Martha; Fung, Tak Shing – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
The causal relationships among the three presences in the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework are explored and tested in this paper. The CoI framework has been used extensively in the research and practice of online and blended learning contexts. With the development of a survey instrument based on the CoI framework, it is possible to test the…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Factor Structure, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
Marrero, Meghan E.; Woodruff, Karen A.; Schuster, Glen S.; Riccio, Jessica Fitzsimons – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2010
Teachers are searching for new venues through which they may meet stringent professional development requirements. Under competitive funding from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Office of Education and the NASA Explorer Schools Project, U.S. Satellite Laboratory, Inc. created a series of live, online, interactive…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Technology, Federal Programs, Communities of Practice
Couchman, Judith A. – Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 2009
Academic peer mentoring programs have gained a firm place in higher education student support over the last couple of decades. One such program, Supplemental Instruction (SI), has been extensively evaluated as particularly effective in the United States and has subsequently figured in recommendations for adoption by both Australian and New Zealand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Mentors, Qualitative Research
Bannister, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation seeks to understand how teachers learn through interactions in newly formed workplace communities by examining how mathematics teachers engaged in equity-oriented reforms frame problems of practice. It examines how teachers' framings develop over time, and how teachers' shifting frames connect to their learning in a community of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Problems, High School Students, Ethnography
Schumacher, Julie Raeder – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A journal club is defined as a group of individuals who meet regularly to discuss current trends in literature and have been advocated to bridge the gap of research and practice. With the popularity of the Internet, there are a variety of tools available for online learning through journal clubs including asynchronous discussions, which the…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Communities of Practice, Clubs
Hironaka, Janet Hiroko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study aimed to build a professional learning community collaboratively among high school teachers for lifelong growth to minimize teacher isolation, discomfort, and fear. The study was driven by a compelling desire to extend personal learning in ways to impact the school learning community. The foundation for this study was the body of…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Workshops, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers
Otten, Matthias – Intercultural Education, 2009
Structure and agency of cultural diversity in (international) higher education have to be addressed with a critical perspective on international mobility and practices of international academic teaching. In order to overcome naive assumptions about intercultural developments on the individual and the organizational level, sociological analysis…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cultural Pluralism, Organizational Development, Models
Charbonneau-Gowdy, Paula; Cechova, Ivana – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2009
Traditional educational and training settings have dictated that the act of learning is an activity that is motivated by learners, directed by a teacher expert and based on information transfer and data manipulation. In this scenario, it has been assumed that learners more or less acquire knowledge or develop sets of skills as a result of such…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Socialization, Educational Research, Distance Education
Doppelt, Yaron; Schunn, Christian D.; Silk, Eli M.; Mehalik, Matthew M.; Reynolds, Birdy; Ward, Erin – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2009
The focus of this research was an evaluation of the impact of teacher professional development (PD) on student achievement during implementation of a reform curriculum. The PD consisted of five four-hour workshop sessions distributed over the time teachers were implementing the reform curriculum in their classrooms. The research was conducted in a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Educational Change
Cashman, Joanne; Laflin, Elizabeth; Paliokas, Kathleen – Idea Partnership, 2007
The current environment framing education for students with disabilities--namely the requirements of the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) and the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act" (IDEA 2004)--has challenged educators to achieve even greater success. Ensuring teacher quality is one strategy that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Disabilities
Fenwick, Tara – Human Resource Development Review, 2006
This article argues that understandings of work learning within human resource development (HRD) theory can be fruitfully enriched by more fully incorporating practice-based perspectives. Three contemporary theories that analyze learning as a relation of individuals with and/or in activity are discussed: the participational perspective of situated…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Learning Theories, Communities of Practice