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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Online communities of practice"”.
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Change in Educational Policy and Practice Through Online Communities of Practice
… paper explores how education could benefit from online solutions. The history of public education in the U.S. is fractured at best, based on a system reliant on state and local control. As new legislation came into place to meet the needs of civil rights laws, and equal rights protection, the …
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The relationship between epistemic beliefs and knowledge contribution to online communities of practice
… refer to individual beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between individuals’ levels of expertise, epistemic beliefs, and their contributions to an online community of practice. The studied community was hosted by a firm …
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Investigating the role of informal online communities of practice (CoPs) in professional learning: the experience of second/foreign language teachers
… experiences related to participation in informal online Communities of Practice (CoPs) as an alternative means of professional learning. Findings from samples in Canada and Ukraine indicate opportunities for, and some challenges to, professional learning within virtual (online, Web-based) …
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Online communities of practice and teachers perceived sense of efficacy: a mixed methods study of National Association of Agricultural Educators Communities of Practice users
The purpose of this convergent design mixed methods study was to assess the perceived sense of efficacy of teachers who use the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) Communities of Practice, an online community for pre-service teachers, secondary educators, and university professors …
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How do practitioners engage in an online community of practice?
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how practitioners engage in anonymous Online Communities of Practice. Design/methodology/approach: Interactions taking place in a month on the marketing subreddit is analysed using Social Network Analysis. The degree centrality of each …
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Online Knowledge Sharing in a Multinational Corporation: Chinese and *American Practices
… research toward understanding the complexity of technology-mediated knowledge sharing in cross-cultural contexts. One major contribution of this dissertation is that it has provided sound explanations for cross-cultural knowledge sharing patterns by synthesizing the factors from separate …
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Online citizen science projects: an exploration of motivation, contribution and participation
The number of online citizen science projects has increased significantly over the past decade, yet some aspects of participation are poorly understood as is the motivation behind the involvement of the scientists who set up these projects, and the citizen scientists who take part. This thesis …
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Examining 'Enunciative Space' in an online community of practice
The way in which the role of teacher is characterized has significant implications. If the teacher is characterized as discerner, with the ability to "transform understanding, performance skills, or desired attitudes or values into pedagogical representations and actions" (Shulman, 1986, p. 4) then …