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Exploring online learning for intersecting communities of practice

journal contribution
posted on 2012-09-01, 00:00 authored by J Mackey, Terry EvansTerry Evans
The article reports on some research from a larger project into the connections between online learning communities and communities of practice for teachers’ professional learning. The research was conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand within a university graduate diploma programme on ICT education that is provided entirely online. The research reported here explores the experiences of 15 teachers as they studied the GradDipICTEd programme while working as professionals in their school contexts. The findings indicate that online educators working on professional development courses need to work imaginatively in their curricula and pedagogies to enable learners’ reflexive movements between their online and professional communities. This benefits, not only the students as professionals, but also their professional communities of practice. Furthermore, by so doing, the courses provide for productive relationships between educational institutions and related professional bodies.

History

Journal

International journal of web based communities

Volume

8

Issue

4

Pagination

486 - 503

Publisher

Inderscience Enterprises

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

ISSN

1477-8394

eISSN

1741-8216

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.