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Existing Community Practices and Designed Interventions: Understanding the Tensions in supporting Pre-service Teachers to Integrate ICT during Practice Teaching
Kamini Jaipal; Candace Figg; Marie Atack; Flavia Orvitz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 5235–5237
This paper documents the tensions or dualities emerging during the initiation of a school-based collaborative initiative to support pre-service teachers to integrate ICT during practice teaching. Participants were 4 pre-service teachers (2 pre...
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The search for learning community in learner paced distance education: Or, 'Having your cake and eating it, too!'
Terry Anderson; David Annand; Norine Wark
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 21, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2005)
University distance and e-learning programs generally follow one of two models. Most dual mode institutions and some open universities follow a model of cohort learning. Students start and terminate each course at the same time, and proceed at the...
Language: English
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Fostering a Community of Learners in an Online Master’s Program Directed Toward K-12 Teachers in Integrating Technologies in Mathematics Education and Science Education
Margaret Niess; Emily van Zee
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1781–1789
This qualitative descriptive study examines strategies for fostering a community of learners in an online Master’s program in mathematics education and science education. Multiple cases analyses describe in-service teachers’ work in the community of ...
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Understanding the way in which students contribute to knowledge building and knowledge claim critiquing within a community of learners working in a computer supported learning environment
Patrick Fullick
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2592–2599
Collaborating in the production of a scientific explanation for the behaviour of a prototype toy, a group of school students was encouraged to use a Web-based environment to share their ideas and to be critical of the knowledge claims made by others,...
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Building a Global Community of Policy-makers, Researchers, and Teachers to Move Education Systems into the Digital Age: The EDUsmmIT 2011 Report
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Paul Resta; Michael Searson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 47–54
EDUsummIT 2011 brought together l20 distinguished researchers, policy-makers, teachers, journal editors and technology leaders from across the globe to develop strategies and recommendations to move educational systems into the Digital Age. The...
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It Takes Research to Build a Community: Ongoing Challenges for Scholars in Digitally-Supported Communicative Language Teaching
Melinda Dooly
CALICO Journal Vol. 32, No. 1 (2015) pp. 172–194
This article provides an argument for closer multilateral alliances between the emergent and loosely-bound international community of educational researchers who are working in areas related to Digitally Supported Communicative Language Teaching and ...
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Testing a New Talking Stick: An Indigenous Community Organization and a Canadian University Try Desktop Videoconferencing in Partnership
Kate Freeman; Jackie Moore
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2351–2356
This paper explores the usefulness of desktop videoconferencing in furthering the initiatives of an Indigenous teacher education program geographically remote from the university. The Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP) prepares Indigenous...
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Assessing the Need and Receptivity for an Integrated Healthy Sexual and Dating Relationships Intervention for Community College Students
Christine M. Markham; Melissa Peskin; Robert C. Addy; J. Michael Wilkerson; Kimberly Johnson Baker; Diane M. Santa Maria; Belinda Hernandez; Vanessa Schick; Ross Shegog; Susan R. Tortolero; Yok-Fong Paat; Jeff R. Temple
Journal of Applied Research on Children Vol. 8, No. 1 (2017)
The authors present findings from formative research to assess the need and receptivity for a Web-based, integrated healthy sexual and dating relationships intervention among community college students in South Central Texas. Texas ranks third...
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Learning styles and gender online: The Attitudes Towards Thinking and Learning Scale (ATTLS) and the Classroom Community Scale (CCS)
Terumi Miyazoe
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3413–3422
This paper reports on research into the relationships among learning styles, gender, and sense of class community in an interactive online learning environment. Two psychological scales were selected for correlational examination. Attitudes Towards...
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Project TIN – Using collaborative synchronous and asynchronous technologies to deliver online, community-based induction for beginning teachers
Joel Donna; Gillian Roehrig
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4686–4689
Online induction programs can help retain and improve beginning teachers' practice through content specific mentoring, peer support, and professional development activities and resources. This poster describes collaborative synchronous and...
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Technology in Support of Faculty Learning Communities
Norman Vaughan
New Directions for Teaching and Learning Vol. 97 (2004) pp. 101–109
Technology can be used to effectively support FLCs. This chapter explores how technology and a community of inquiry model can be used to facilitate individual reflection and critical discourse about teaching practice. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
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Webfolio: An online learning community to help link university studies and classroom practice in preservice teacher education
Reesa Sorin; Reesa Sorin
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2004)
The Webfolio project was developed at James Cook University to extend students' professional learning beyond what is taught in lectures or gleaned through the practicum. Through web based case studies, early childhood and primary preservice teachers ...
Language: English
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The Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Education (LITE):Exploring Roads to Building a Community in an Urban-Commuter University Environment
Alysa Cozart; Anne Rudnicki; Jeanette Dixon; Carrie Markello
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3130–3137
The Laboratory for Technology Innovation in Teacher Education(LITE) is a collaborative learning environment in which students, faculty, preservice and inservice teachers along with community partners explore ways to combine best teaching practices...
Topics: Collaboration, Multimedia, Preservice Teacher Education, Community, Educational Technology
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Educational leadership, community partnerships and 24/7 access to educational technology: Bridging the technology gap in small, rural communities with anytime, anywhere learning.
Ian W. Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2726–2731
This paper describes a project providing school children with 24/7 access to laptop computer technology in a small rural school community in western Kansas. Based upon the visionary leadership of school and community figures, this collaborative...
Topics: Computers, Community, Educational Technology, Leadership, Schools
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Looking for fixed stars in the eLearning community: a research on referenced literature in SITE Proceeding Books from 1994 to 2001
Lorenzo Cantoni; Isabella Rega
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4697–4704
This research aims to give an initial answer to the following question: is there in the eLearning research community a shared body of common knowledge (authors/journals/ etc.)? , and, in addressing this issue, aims to promote the growing of a common ...
Topics: eLearning
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Influence of Learning Design of the Formation of Online Communities of Learning
Shazia Jan; Panos Vlachopoulos
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 19, No. 4 (Sep 26, 2018)
This paper presents the findings of a study on a fully online Bachelor’s level course in Health Sciences at a European University conducted to explore the influence of learning design on the formation and evolution of different types of communities...
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It Takes a Community to Develop a Teacher: Testing a New Teacher Education Model for Promoting ICT in Classroom Teaching Practices in Chile
Paula Charbonneau-Gowdy
Electronic Journal of e-Learning Vol. 13, No. 4 pp. 237–249
This paper adds to the emerging dialogue on best practices in teacher education for preparing future teachers to use technology to promote grounded theory-based practices in their classrooms. In it, I report on an evolving model for such training...
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Collaboration, Community, Culture, and Connection in the High School Spanish Classroom: Promoting and Developing 21st Century Skills through Blogs and Electronic Pen Pals
Todd Reimer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 2211–2218
This paper reports preliminary findings on design-based research interventions implemented in a high school Spanish 3 class; electronic pen pals and student-developed blogs. This paper includes qualitative findings on student perceptions of writing ...
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Technologies that Assist in Closing the Achievement Gap: A Comparison African American and Caucasian Students’ Learning and Community in the Online Classroom
Amanda Rockinson-Szapkiw; Randall Dunn; David Holder
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 804–809
Higher Education administrators and educators seek to understand how to design and to facilitate online courses to ensure quality, culturally responsive online education for minority students, specifically African American students, and to close the ...
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The Perspectives of Science Teachers in Relation to Current Thinking about Environmental Education
Chris Gayford
Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 16, No. 2 (1998) pp. 101–13
Presents aspects of current thinking about the environment within the international community. Discusses an inquiry into practice among secondary science teachers (N=81) in England. Contains 38 references. (DDR)
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Digital Writing Spaces as Rhetorical Locales of Invention
Josephine Walwema
International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2016) pp. 60–72
This article examines the shifting nature of invention with digital infrastructure as a rhetorical locale for composing writing collaboratively. Because composing collaboratively involves inquiry, the article examines the framework for a successful...
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Bridging theory and practice: Towards a professional scholarship of pedagogy
Arthur N Geddis; Mary J Lynch; Sharon B Speir
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 14, No. 1 (1998) pp. 95–106
Pedagogical practice provides university and school personnel with an arena of common concern with the potential for building collaborative communities of inquiry. This paper articulates the efforts of two school teachers and a curriculum professor...
Language: English
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The Use of Online Collaborative Tools and Student Perception of Social Presence
David Wicks; Arthur Ellis; Andrew Lumpe
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 2371–2379
The researchers explored the Community of Inquiry framework and how collaborative technologies, specifically wikis, can be used to impact student perception of social presence in online learning. The subjects were 78 graduate education students in...
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The impact of a technology coordinator's beliefs upon the use of technology in the construction of a community's history
Scott Waring
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4852–4858
This study followed an instructional technology coordinator and a group of elementary aged students as they constructed a technology-enriched community history project. The purpose of the project was for students to use a variety of different...
Topics: Students, Social Studies, Community
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Supporting Communities of Learners in the Elementary Classroom: The Common Knowledge Learning Environment
Cresencia Fong; James D. Slotta
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 46, No. 4 (2018) pp. 533–561
We report on a multi-year design study of a technology environment called Common Knowledge (CK), designed to support learning communities in K-12 classrooms. Students represent their ideas in the form of notes, add their ideas to a collective...
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Role of Instructional Technology in the Transformation of Higher Education
D R. Garrison; Zehra Akyol
Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 21, No. 1 (April 2009) pp. 19–30
It is argued in this article that the convergence of collaborative constructivist ideas and emerging instructional technologies are transforming higher education. The article begins with an overview of instructional and communications technology and ...
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Sharing knowledge and building communities: A narrative of the formation, development and sustainability of OOPS
Meng-Fen Grace Lin
(2006) pp. 1–308
This narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) documented the formation, development, and sustainability of an online community called OOPS (Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System) originally formed in February 2004 to translate the MIT...
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Reflection as an Indicator of Cognitive Presence
Petrea Redmond
E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 1 (2014) pp. 46–58
In the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model, cognitive presence indicators can be used to evaluate the quality of inquiry in a discussion forum. Engagement in critical thinking and deep knowledge can occur through reflective processes. When learners...
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Mathematical Meaning-Making and Its Relation to Design of Teaching
Barbara Jaworski
PNA Vol. 9, No. 4 (2015) pp. 261–272
This paper addresses the design of teaching to promote engineering students' conceptual understanding of mathematics, and its outcomes for mathematical meaning-making. Within a developmental research approach, inquiry-based tasks have been designed...
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Management of Change
Shad Morrow
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2015) pp. 75–82
Reexamination of change management strategies has recently come under direct scrutiny in both the realm of the academic and the professional due to the significant shift of brick-and-mortar institutions to virtual organizational structures. As such,...
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Measuring the Level of Complexity of Scientific Inquiries: The LCSI Index
Efrat Eilam
International Journal of Environmental and Science Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2015) pp. 1–20
The study developed and applied an index for measuring the level of complexity of full authentic scientific inquiry. Complexity is a fundamental attribute of real life scientific research. The level of complexity is an overall reflection of complex...
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Intentional Integration of Critical Thinking Instruction and Technology Utilization into Undergraduate Education
Ruth Swart
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 1338–1342
A study was commenced to determine strategies to facilitate the development of critical thinking in an undergraduate course. Critical thinking instruction has been intentionally included in classroom presentation and aligned with the course content, ...
Topics: improving classroom teaching, Teaching/Learning Strategies, Community, Integration, Implementation Experiences
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The online classroom: A comparative study of the effects of perceived learning and connectedness
Kathleen Houlihan
(2013) pp. 1–68
Online course offerings have quickly become a ubiquitous component in the higher education portfolios for most colleges and universities. While students continue to push for more options online, the administration and the faculty at traditional...
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Creating Virtual Communities of Professional Practice
Jeannine Hirtle; Pete Smith; Janelle Quintans Bence
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3164–3169
This paper features a case study of a virtual professional community of practice which serves to support mentoring and professional development for members of a writing project. Roles of community members are examined in order to ascertain their...
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Learning to teach, learning to inquire: A 3-year study of teacher candidates’ experiences
Renate Schulz; David Mandzuk
Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 21, No. 3 pp. 315–331
In this study, the authors report on their research into the inquiry component of a newly conceptualized pre-service teacher education program. In a series of focus group discussions conducted over a 3-year period, 17 teacher candidates talked about ...
Language: English
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Engaging Females in Physical Science Teaching and Technology: Reducing Misconceptions of the Minority “Stereotype Threat”
Sandra Davis; Carla Thompson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 2980–2986
This case study supported inquiry-based learning, minority female learning communities, and misconceptions of female “stereotype threat” in physical science and technology. Promoting conceptual understanding and preparing diverse females in physical ...
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From ‘hello’ to higher-order thinking: The effect of coaching and feedback on online chats
David S. Stein; Constance E. Wanstreet; Paula Slagle; Lynn A. Trinko; Michelle Lutz
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 78–84
This exploratory study examined the effect of a coaching and feedback intervention in teaching presence and social presence on higher-order thinking in an online community of inquiry. Coaching occurred before each chat, and feedback was provided...
Language: English
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Expanding the Landscape: Developing Knowledgeability through Communities of Practice
Melanie Brown; Catherine Peck
International Journal for Academic Development Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 232–243
Rapid changes in the Higher Education (HE) sector are increasing the pressure on teaching staff to introduce technology-enhanced learning experiences into the curriculum. Institutions therefore need to provide effective means of enabling academics...
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Factors Affecting Development of Communities in 3D Immersive Learning Environments
Terry McClannon; Robert Sanders; Amy Cheney; Les Bolt; Krista Terry
International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 4, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 18–34
This study is based on survey research conducted in 2010 and 2011, involving graduate students using a 3D immersive environment for their coursework. Investigators examined students’ perceptions of community and presence via coursework offered in...
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Assessing the Preparedness Level of Incoming Principles of Accounting Students
Phillip W. Imel
Inquiry Vol. 5, No. 2 (2000) pp. 16–21
Reports that the introductory level Principles of Accounting classes at Southwest Virginia Community College (SVCC) had high unsuccessful grade rates between 1989 and 1999. Describes a study conducted to determine whether there was a statistical...
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Effect of WebCT Tool Usage on Maintenance of Treatment Standards by Denturist Practicum Students
Janet Patricia Paradis
(2011) pp. 1–124
This study explored the extent to which using online communication tools helped NAIT (the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology) denturist students on third-year practica maintain laboratory and clinical standards of treatment. The inquiry was...
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Effects of Online Cognitive Facilitation on Student Learning
Rodrigo del Valle; Semiral Oncu; Nur Fatma Koksal; Nari Kim; Paul Alford; Thomas M. Duffy
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
The purpose of this exploratory experimental study was to examine how online cognitive facilitation that promotes cognitive presence, while keeping facilitator's social presence constant, affects student learning and satisfaction in an online...
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Assessing Social Presence in Asynchronous Text-based Computer Conferencing
Liam Rourke; Terry Anderson; D Randy Garrison; Walter Archer
The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance Vol. 14, No. 2 (1999) pp. 50–71
Discusses computer conferencing in higher education, presents a community of inquiry model that includes benefits of computer conferencing, and discusses social presence, defined as the ability of learners to project themselves socially and...
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Invited Panel: Conceptions of Context in TPACK Research
Petra Fisser; Judi Harris; Jessica Duggan
SITE 2020--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2020, No. 1 (2020)
The purpose of this symposium is to present to the TPACK community different approaches to teacher candidate TPACK development. In doing so, it is the hope that how TPACK is conceptualized and developed in practice across preservice teacher...
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Promoting the Quality of Asynchronous Discussions – A Systematic Approach
Yu-mei Wang
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 3013–3014
Online discussions nowadays are readily accessible in university courses due to campus-wide integration of online learning management systems such as blackboard. The online discussion provides convenience and flexibility for students to participate ...
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Quest for learning: A study of teachers' perceptions of the Satellite Education and Environmental Research Program
Kathryn A. Ahern
(1997) pp. 1–213
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of teachers who participated in the Satellite Education and Environmental Research (SEER) Program Water Project, a curriculum design course developed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The ...
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The Critical, Relational Practice of Instructional Design in Higher Education: An Emerging Model of Change Agency
Katy Campbell; Richard A. Schwier; Richard F. Kenny
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 57, No. 5 (October 2009) pp. 645–663
This paper offers an emerging interpretive framework for understanding the active role instructional designers play in the transformation of learning systems in higher education. A 3-year study of instructional designers in Canadian universities...
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The Use of E-learning in Higher Education: Towards a Notion of Digital Literacy of University Teachers
Christina Keller; Stefan Hrastinski
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2417–2424
To make e-learning in higher education truly interactive, it is our assumption that teachers will have to rethink their pedagogical practice and move from the traditional notion of objectivist instructional design to a constructivist pedagogical...
Topics: Instructional Design, Literacy, Teachers, Social Studies
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Pilgrims' Progress: The journey towards a knowledge building community in a university undergraduate class / Le voyage du pèlerin: Le parcours vers la création d’une communauté d’apprentissage dans une classe de premier cycle universitaire
Donald Philip; Donald Philip
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 38, No. 1 (Feb 29, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to examine the progress of a class of third- and fourth-year undergraduate science students as they attempted to create a knowledge building community in a blended or hybrid science education class. The research sought...
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Shared Leadership of Online Communities of Practice
Michael McVey
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 3073–3079
The primary objective of this descriptive study was to determine organization of an informally created online Community of Practice in the absence of a clearly defined leader responsible for content and control of the discussions. The researcher...