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24 Mar 09

Teachers' Learning Communities: Catalyst for Change or a New Infrastructure for the Status Quo?

This article explores four core themes, which represent endemic challenges to sustaining teachers’ learning communities (LCs): 1) defining and fostering teacher agency, 2) determining purposes for teacher collaboration, 3) tracking the challenges to and impact on district culture, and 4) identifying enabling and constraining institutional and policy conditions. The author uncovers conflicts that frequently emerge when efforts at enhancing the professional autonomy, authority, and responsibility of teachers conflict with hierarchical and bureaucratic district and school cultures.

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Socialization in the Online Classroom

  • How Online Socialization Relates to Social Knowledge Construction - jeddco on 2006-10-10
  • How Online Socialization Relates to Social Knowledge Construction

Theories and models of and for online learning

  • For many years, discussion of online learning, or e–learning, has been pre–occupied with the practice of teaching online and the debate about whether being online is ‘as good as’ being offline. The authors contributing to this paper see this past as an incubation period for the emergence of new teaching and learning practices. We see changes in teaching and learning emerging from the nexus of a changing landscape of information and communication technologies, an active and motivated teaching corps that has worked to derive new approaches to teaching, an equally active and motivated learning corps that has contributed as much to how to teach online as they have to how to learn while online, with others, and away from a campus setting. We see the need for, and the emergence of, new theories and models of and for the online learning environment, addressing learning in its ICT context, considering both formal and informal learning, individual and community learning, and new practices arising from technology use in the service of learning. This paper presents six theoretical perspectives on learning in ICT contexts, and is an invitation to others to bring theoretical models to the fore to enhance our understanding of new learning contexts.

Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems

  • Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems - jeddco on 2006-09-02
  • Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems

  • The educational potential of social software is to facilitate self-governed,
    problem-based and collaborative activities by supplying students with loosely
    joined personal tools for independent construction, and by engaging them in
    social networks. This approach to e-learning empowers students by giving them
    the ability to navigate and participate on the web and to use it actively to
    solve problems.

Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media


  • Kids' Informal Learning with Digital Media
    An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures
     - jeddco on 2006-09-20
26 Jul 06

eLearn: Research Papers

  • mobile phones and elearning - jeddco on 2006-07-26
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