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Duffey, Delia, R.; Fox, Christine – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2012
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the technology leadership in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This is SETDA's ninth annual report on select educational technology activities. This year's report includes…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Leadership, Grants, Communities of Practice
Johannesen, Monica; Habib, Laurence – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
This article uses the notion of professional identity within the framework of actor network theory to understand didactic practices within three faculties in an institution of higher education. The study is based on a series of interviews with lecturers in each faculty and diaries of their didactic practices. The article focuses on the use of a…
Descriptors: Diaries, Nursing Education, Engineering Education, Teacher Education
Ketelhut, Diane Jass; Nelson, Brian C.; Clarke, Jody; Dede, Chris – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This study investigated novel pedagogies for helping teachers infuse inquiry into a standards-based science curriculum. Using a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) as a pedagogical vehicle, teams of middle-school students collaboratively solved problems around disease in a virtual town called River City. The students interacted with "avatars" of…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Virtual Classrooms, Science Education, Science Curriculum
Jones, Rachel; Fox, Christine; Levin, Douglas – State Educational Technology Directors Association, 2011
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)--the principal association representing the technology leadership in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs--presents its eighth annual report on select, national, educational technology activities. This…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Blended Learning, Dropout Prevention, Educational Technology
Gill, Wanda E. – Online Submission, 2011
The report, "The Ready to Teach Program: A Federal Initiative in Support of Online Courses for Teachers", describes the history of the Ready to Teach Program and its role as one of the solutions to the national need to increase the performance of teachers through professional development. The report describes selected findings from the Eisenhower…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness
Jameson, Jill – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
A nomadic collaborative partnership model for a community of practice (CoP) in Design for Learning (D4L) can facilitate successful innovation and continuing appraisals of effective professional practice, stimulated by a "critical friend" assigned to the project. This paper reports on e-learning case studies collected by the UK JISC eLIDA…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Partnerships in Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies
Blunt, Richard – Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 2008
A survey asked medical students studying the basic sciences to identify effective learning strategies. The purposes of the survey were three-fold: firstly, to identify learning strategies that students prefer; secondly, to encourage students to evaluate their learning strategies; and thirdly, to inform faculty about their students' learning…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Learning Strategies, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Charmaraman, Linda – Afterschool Matters, 2008
This article describes "Youthscapes," a year-round afterschool program in the San Francisco East Bay Area (CA) that offers urban youth the opportunity to use technology to reconstruct their identities in at least two ways: (1) by encouraging its apprentices to create media content that directly counteracted stereotypes about urban youth;…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Urban Youth, After School Programs, Identification (Psychology)
Jawitz, J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2008
A study into how academics learn to assess student performance affirms the significance of context in understanding learning in the academic workplace. The study involved three case studies in academic departments with significant differences in the teaching, research and professional dimensions of academic life. This article reports on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Educational Environment, Work Environment
Spaeth, Sebastian; Haefliger, Stefan; von Krogh, Georg; Renzl, Birgit – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: Virtual communities play an important role in innovation. The paper focuses on the particular form of collective action in virtual communities underlying as Open Source software development projects. Method: Building on resource mobilization theory and private-collective innovation, we propose a theory of collective action in…
Descriptors: Innovation, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Computer System Design
Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
Independent reviewer evaluations of the Ministry of Education (MoE) funded Principal Professional Learning Community (PPLC) programme for experienced principals in New Zealand (NZ) suggest a highly valued and strongly supportive programme. My own critique of the programme, against criteria for "strong" professional learning communities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interprofessional Relationship, Professional Development
Avis, James; Fisher, Roy – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2006
Engagement in communities of practice has increasingly come to be seen as an important aspect of adult learning. Participation within such communities is thought to provide a dialogic space in which learning can take place. These ideas are increasingly being applied to the work of teachers, lecturers, and trainers. This reflective paper addresses…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Practices, Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning
Graham, Parry – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2007
The process of creating a professional learning community can be difficult, lengthy, and incredibly rewarding. Based on the author's experiences working as an administrator in a professional learning community school, this article discusses the role that conversation, contention, and commitment play in the development of a PLC, and includes…
Descriptors: Role, Communities of Practice, Administrator Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Hines, Samantha Schmehl – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2007
Many programs for mentoring of librarians exist within organizations, for specific areas of librarianship, or for particular groups of librarians. These programs generally depend on face-to-face contact and some organizational commonalities or similarity in positions. With the advent of online communication, could a more general program matching…
Descriptors: Mentors, Librarians, Computer Mediated Communication, Library Associations
Clarkson, Barnard; Brook, Chris – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Educators are often torn between impositions of the institution in which they work and the imperatives of their individual courses or units and the impact this tension might have on student satisfaction with the learning experience. It is common to hear that students must graduate with multiple generic attributes or skills, yet these skills may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Community Characteristics