There is a large body of research on the topic of knowledge management and organizational memory, as well as on the topic of communities of practice and virtual communities of practice. This research looked at three law enforcement and intelligence related case studies and how the use of Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP) in these law enforcement environments can mitigate the loss of organizational memory. This research looked at these VCoPs in an attempt to determine if explicit and tacit...
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Discussion on what a healthy community of practice feels like, what are the steps to build one and how to sustain it.
Topic: Public Newsroom 137: Exploring Communities of Practice
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Topics: Wikipedia, Communities of practice -- Case studies, Communication in learning and scholarship
This paper explores the forces that support the proliferation of the flexible work arrangement called job sharing. Moreover, the paper will illuminate the need for integrating learning and practice as a way to develop and support job sharing partners, or "Partners in Practice" (PiPs). The author puts forth a model derived from learning in Communities of Practice (CoPs), which is argued to be similar to learning and practice that occurs in PiPs. (Contains 1 figure.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Job Sharing, Communities of Practice, Models, Dixon-Krausse, Pamela Marie
The Department of Defense has recently discovered the benefits of Communities of Practice as a Knowledge Management program in strategic, tactical, and staff environments. Such communities have grown in popularity - 185,000 users growing at 5,000 per month in over 6,000 registered Communities in the Air Force alone. However, their emergent manner and perspective is limited; an information-focused approach prevails, through which primary emphasis is placed on technology and document archives....
Topics: Communities, Manpower, Sea control, Information technology, Management, Learning, Knowledge...
Introduction: This paper considers practice theory and the analytical implications of using this theoretical approach in information literacy research. More precisely the aim of the paper is to discuss the translation of practice theoretical assumptions into strategies that frame the analytical focus and interest when researching workplace information literacy. Two practice theoretical perspectives are selected, one by Theodore Schatzki and one by Etienne Wenger, and their general commonalities...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Workplace Literacy, Information Literacy, Research, Communities of Practice, Social...
A professional learning network (PLN) is a community of individuals around the world who are learning together. They can start out as strangers, people one couldn't pick out in a crowded room. But Twitter, the virtual meeting place where one's PLN comes together, helps these strangers come together to create a community built on communication and collaboration dedicated to making learning and education the best it can be. The first thing to know is that developing a PLN on Twitter takes a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Development, Learning Activities, Interprofessional Relationship,...
In this paper, I make the case that John Dewey's philosophy of education aims to bring about a democratic community of teachers capable of creating a science of teaching. To make this case, I will do a three things. First, I will discuss "Sources of a Science of Education" and argue that this work is deeply connected to a work written at about the same time, "Individualism Old and New." As I will show, the creation of a science of education is a complex endeavor that is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories,...
Guiding student growth minute-by-minute--aka classroom formative assessment--has a track record of boosting student and teacher engagement. Discover concrete ways leaders can support this high-impact instructional practice throughout your school or district. Learn: (1) how to clarify who owns the learning and who is responsible for the learning environment; (2) six specific ways leaders can support teachers' ongoing, embedded use of formative assessment; and (3) how to help teachers sustain...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Formative Evaluation, Educational Environment, Evaluation Methods, Student...
Cedefop had successfully managed study visits for vocational education and training (VET) experts for over 20 years, building up a reputation for visits of high quality both in terms of content and organisation. Wishing to draw on this experience and know-how, the European Commission invited Cedefop to coordinate the new much larger consolidated study visits for experts in education, VET and lifelong learning. In 2008, Cedefop led a working group of decision-makers, social partners and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Expertise, Institutional Cooperation,...
There is not much research on the effectiveness of co-principals. A simple Google search reveals how many schools have implemented the idea. What little is written was written either in the early 1980's or within the last few years. Very little focuses specifically on high schools. The idea of co-principals has been used to devote more time to instructional issues and less to managerial, to promote the complexities of school reform, to fight administrator burnout, and to use a distributed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, School Restructuring, Educational Administration, Teamwork, Administrator...
The author argues that the current conjuncture is a kairotic moment for their own learning community program as well as the national movement to support the development of learning communities in universities and colleges and the array of pedagogical approaches associated with them. With Barbara Leigh Smith (2013), they recognize a link between the social justice movements of the 1960s and the learning community movement both in their commitments to democracy and their organizing strategies....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Students, College...
For more than a decade education practitioners have promoted the professional learning community (PLC) as an effective way to provide professional development to teachers. As more PLCs are established in schools and districts nationwide, education stakeholders--researchers, practitioners, administrators, and policymakers--are interested in evaluating the performance of PLCs. Stakeholders want to know more about PLCs' contributions to a range of outcomes, including teacher and administrator...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Measures (Individuals), Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty...
Knowledge capitalization is one of many problems facing online communities of practice (CoPs). Knowledge accumulated through the participation in the community must be capitalized for future reuse. Most of proposals are specific and focus on knowledge modeling disregarding the reuse of that knowledge. In this paper, we are particularly interested on CoPs of e-learning (CoPEs) and we propose a knowledge capitalization approach within the framework of a CoPE, based on contextual semantic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Documentation, Semantics, Communities of Practice, Electronic Learning, Knowledge...
This paper explores how to select, or design, the best mathematical task for a given learning goal. Examples are taken from a recent project in Victorian Primary schools that employed Japanese Lesson Study as the means to provide teachers with Professional Learning within their own classrooms. The discussions by participating teachers and researchers provide some insights into the difficulties and solutions facing teachers intending to improve the critical thinking skills of their pupils....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mathematics Instruction, Communities of Practice, Elementary Schools, Faculty...
Cooperative learning involves students in working together with peers to learn, to develop learning skills and to enjoy the learning process. This paper examines ten areas in which the author believes he and other teachers do cooperative learning well. These areas are: (1) keeping group size small, usually four or fewer; (2) encouraging students to form heterogeneous groups; (3) monitoring groups as they cooperate and encouraging groups to rely on themselves; (4) creating tasks that the groups...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cooperative Learning, Peer Relationship, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of...
In an Australian education policy environment where professional standards are determining the parameters of effective teaching and learning, it is important that we revisit ways to ensure reflection and collegial engagement are embedded in pre-service teachers' professional experience. This article reports on a university program initiative that used a non-clinical model of professional experience to centralise opportunities for pre-service teachers to engage in reflection and research of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Reflection, College Programs, Educational...
Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two independent studies on teacher professional development. One study was situated in a face-to-face action...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Informal Education, Online Courses,...
This paper is a response to a request asking for information on professional learning communities (PLCs) and their effect on teachers, students, and school culture. In order to respond to the request, a search for articles related to the subject was conducted using combinations of words such as "professional learning communities," "learning teams," "student outcomes," "school culture," "teacher impact," and "professional development."...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evidence, Educational Research, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, School...
A study of teacher metacognition within the context of the professional learning community (PLC) was conducted to understand how teachers describe their metacognition, what they describe as the catalysts to their metacognition, and how metacognition influences their work. Although the PLC was used as a context for the study, the findings include that the PLC was an environment in which teacher metacognition could be nurtured, and that the PLC leaders' recognition of their own metacognition...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Metacognition, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Semi...
This research conducts a comparative analysis of discretionary access controls of current wikis by experimenting with their discretionary access controls and functionality, comparing the wiki software cost of implementation, and comparing the scalability for possible enterprise use. Most importantly, the author will analyze wikis discretionary access control capabilities and suitability in regards to which wiki will be more beneficial in a particular CONOPS. The derivation of the author's...
Topics: Wikis (Computer science), Communities of practice, Command and control systems, United States,...
Written in the first person and drawing from an autoethnographic methodological framework, this essay shares aspirations, experiences, and reflections on a faculty member's professional work in a large U.S. public research-oriented university, focusing specifically on her attempts to reconcile her service-oriented civic engagement work with her university's priorities and workplace conditions. The author positions her work within a larger community of practice in art education higher education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Art Education, Higher Education, Citizen...
Knowledge is one of the crucial and dominant economic resources in order to obtain sustainable advantages in any community. The world is now shifting faster thanks to the advanced development of digital connectivity and increasing access to knowledge. Leaders of a community, society, or country must contemplate what factors concerned in the emergent era of valuable network that fosters learning communities. To some extent, learning communities benefit each individual member and the community as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, Knowledge Management, Communities of Practice,...
This study focuses on two user types in an online educational community--novices and elders--and explores the characteristics of their behaviours and contributed products by analyzing usage logs. Results show that novices and elders have different behavioural trajectories. In addition, the products created by elders attract more views.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Electronic Learning, Novices, Comparative Analysis, Users (Information), Behavior,...
This report offers suggestions for starting and supporting faculty inquiry groups on individual campuses. Topics include: (1) The Power of Inquiry; Challenging Questions and Powerful Evidence; (2) The Power of Community: Inquiry as a Collaborative Process of Improvement; (3) Suggestions for Starting and Supporting a Faculty Inquiry Group; and (4) The Outcomes of Inquiry.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inquiry, Guidelines, Research Reports, Community Colleges, College Faculty,...
The previous report in this series discussed how collaborative tools can be used in the development of formal and non-formal online communities. The current report describes the specific development of an online community advocacy group.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Advocacy, Communities of...
Through reflective narrative, we present our experiences in a Community of Practice (CoP) committed to teacher preparation for social justice. First, we discuss the CoP's origination and then reflect upon how our participation informed our practice as novice teacher educators. Specifically, we propose that novice teacher educators' participation in a CoP may further cultivate an inquiry stance and inform evolving identities as teacher educators for social justice. Additionally, we posit the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reflection, Teacher Educator Education, Beginning Teachers, Participation,...
The study visits programme for education and vocational training specialists, part of the lifelong learning programme (2007-13), is an initiative of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture. Cedefop coordinates the programme at the European level, whereas the national agencies implement the programme in the participating countries. Between 2008 and 2011, 7 615 people from 33 countries received a grant from the EU to take part in 719 study visits organised in 29...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Lifelong Learning, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, International Educational...
This paper investigates the transformation of new elementary teachers in their understanding of mathematics in relation to pedagogy and learning. By participating in an intentionally created community of practice, new elementary school teachers, began to connect to mathematics in new ways: reflectively, confidently, and inquisitively. Analysis focused on data from teacher reflections, observations, group meetings, and revealed communities of practice in which an increased confidence with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice, Mathematics Instruction,...
This report includes observations from the first year of a three-year study of seven small high schools (that exist in converted comprehensive high schools) in Washington State. It discusses the unique characteristics of professional communities that are emerging and examines how these communities are changing teachers expectations for their practice and supporting the creation of new norms for professional interaction. Five appendixes are included: (1) Methodology; (2) Gates Foundation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Small Schools, Professional Development, Communities of Practice,...
A series of activities have been undertaken to increase the participation of veterans with disabilities in computing and information technology (IT) postsecondary education and career fields. These activities were coordinated by the Alliance for Access to Computing Careers ("AccessComputing"), led by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) at the University of Washington (UW)....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Veterans, Disabilities, Recruitment, Careers, Computers, Information Technology,...
Reflection and Communities of Practice are common constructs in teacher education. Co-teaching is often seen as beneficial, yet teacher education students rarely have experiences being co-taught. Thus, reflection, communities of practice, and co-teaching, deserve careful consideration in designing teacher education learning experiences. Based on experiences co teaching, we argue that unexamined assumptions of university education and university structures can influence how future teachers learn...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Reflective Teaching, Communities of Practice, Team...
The purpose of this article is to begin to explore how collective and sociomaterial theories of learning might be applied within interdisciplinary and interprofessional contexts--in particular the team-based collaboration that is playing an ever larger role in both fields. It ?? articulates several key features of interdisciplinary and interprofessional activities and then speculates on how they might be productively reframed through the lenses of the following theoretical perspectives:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Interdisciplinary Approach, Interprofessional Relationship, Learning Theories, Social...
In this study, an email-based community supporting a community of practice (CoP) of mathematic teachers was investigated. Public messages members send were examined in order to determine what activities that were conducted by the members and what their level of participation is. Data was gathered via a "Media Records Evaluation Form". A content analysis of these messages revealed that the most frequent activity was views/chat, followed by appreciation and knowledge sharing. Findings...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communities of Practice, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Content...
Many schools are starting Small Learning Communities yet much is unknown about their outcomes. Students are literally disappearing in comprehensive high schools and violence has escalated. Those who implement Small Learning Communities are looking to combat these problems. While rarely feasible to split large schools into smaller schools, it is plausible, as we have seen, to create smaller communities within the schools that reach out and individualize the material, with high expectations for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Curriculum, Communities of...
The purpose of this article is to highlight mentoring as an important piece of leading a learning community. The authors will share a definition of mentoring which is applicable to the learning community experience. Characteristics of mentoring will be described, including types of mentoring and mentor-mentee relationships. The authors will apply these concepts to their role as facilitators for a learning community at a teaching-centered, 4-year institution. They will reflect on mentoring in a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mentors, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, College Students, Program...
We propose a practice-based focus for professional learning communities in schools. We start with a brief historical review of the approaches that have deemed peer collaboration as crucial for school improvement and explore how teachers' practices have been characterised in past reform initiatives. Second, we highlight the importance of "teacher agency" within professional learning communities. Third, we point out how a theory of situated cognition provides a robust epistemological...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Educational History, Teacher...
Sociocultural theories of learning and sociocultural theories of technology are explored as a way to view and to map the complex interactions that can occur in online professional discussions. The case of synchronous online moderation meetings are used as an example of the combination of variables that can impact on the development of shared understandings of a practice. Online moderation can involve teachers from geographically diverse areas discussing and negotiating their judgement...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discussion Groups, Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Learning Theories,...
In this article, Joseph Vincente, an assistant principal and math and instructional coach at East Side Community High School in New York City, describes East Side's collaborative structures as well as the norms and conditions that support them. Collaboration underpins how the teachers at East Side structure and conduct most of their work, how they serve students, and how they learn and grow as professionals. The author discusses the following collaborative structures: (1) grade teams; (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High Schools, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers, High School Students,...
Emerging from the contested site of a new university campus, this article reflects on the transformative process of reconceptualizing and rebuilding a professional and an academic stream in a 21st-century Faculty of Education. In order to maximize her own capital, an assistant professor sought tenure in an innovative new stream introduced to her campus, professor of teaching. The novel rank reflected the commitment of the university to provide educational leadership, outstanding teaching, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Educators, Faculty Promotion, Tenure, Personal Narratives, Communities of...
The success of special operations often depends upon building and sustaining relationships with partners. Because of the unconventional environment in which we operate, relationships can also be non-standard, including academics, reporters, and private industry. By creating a community of practice, individuals in special operations may be able to connect groups of subject-matter experts who share a deep interest in a particular activity and, through regular interaction with special operations,...
Topics: Army Design Methodology, big data, communities of practice, design, knowledge management,...
This paper looks at how a series of conversations contributed to the development of a newly formed role at the University of Victoria--Teaching Assistant Consultants (TACs). TACs act as departmental mentors for teaching assistants (TAs) in their respective departments, charged with providing support in the form of discipline-specific workshops aimed at improving performance of their duties and increased confidence in their roles, as well as fostering a TA community within departments.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mentors, Teaching Assistants, Departments, Teacher Workshops, Improvement Programs,...
In contrast to the myth of the "Digital Native" and the ubiquity of Facebook use, we have found that students' digital identities are predominantly social with their online activity beyond Facebook limited to being social media consumers rather than producers. Within a global economy students need to learn new digital literacy skills to prepare them to become active participants of professional networks. In this paper we explore a case study consisting of the development of a six-week...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Identity, Social Media, Case Studies, Elective Courses, Communities of...
In the "Implementing Effective Learning Designs" project a framework and design guidelines were created to provide a comprehensive scaffold to assist academics in the development of inspiring learning design examples and supportive activities. Learning design templates were developed that can be used by academic staff to tailor exemplary examples to meet particular requirements, whilst providing them with the underlying pedagogical principals involved in the learning design. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Design, Higher Education, Planning, Communities of Practice, College...
